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Janet Frame: Writing a novel...

Janet Frame: Writing a novel...

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and...

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Whoopi Goldberg: An actress can...

Whoopi Goldberg: An actress can...

An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything.

Source: Letter...

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Alice Duer Miller: People love to...

Alice Duer Miller: People love to...

People love to talk but hate to listen. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every...

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Judy Garland: We cast away...

Judy Garland: We cast away...

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by...

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Alberta Hunter: I've got the...

Alberta Hunter: I've got the...

I've got the world in a jug
The stopper's in my hand.


Source: Down Hearted...

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Joyce A Myers: Teachers can change...

Joyce A Myers: Teachers can change...

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

Source:...

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Emma Lazarus: Still on Israel's...

Emma Lazarus: Still on Israel's...

Still on Israel's head forlorn,
Every nation heaps its scorn.


Source: The...

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Francesca Annis: I don't really...

Francesca Annis: I don't really...

I don't really have an image of myself. Now, is that true? Well, maybe I do and it's different, which is why I get...

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Jeane Kirkpatrick: Look, I don't...

Jeane Kirkpatrick: Look, I don't...

Look, I don't even agree with myself at times.

Source: On NBC TV, 3 Apr 1985.
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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: There are many...

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: There are many...

There are many little ways to enlarge [your child's] world. Love of books is the best of...

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Simone de Beauvoir: One is not...

Simone de Beauvoir: One is not...

One is not born a genius. One becomes a genius.

Source: The Second Sex,...

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Katharine Whitehorn: I yield to...

Katharine Whitehorn: I yield to...

I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work...

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Cynthia Heimel: Men, being conditioned...

Cynthia Heimel: Men, being conditioned...

Men, being conditioned badly, are always feeling nooses closing around their necks, even dumpy boors no girl would...

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Gail Sheehy: If every day...

Gail Sheehy: If every day...

If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.

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Dorothy Parker: All those writers...

Dorothy Parker: All those writers...

All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same...

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: I understand why...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: I understand why...

I understand why the saints were rarely married women. It has primarily to do with distractions . . . Woman's normal...

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Irene Peter: Today, if you...

Irene Peter: Today, if you...

Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.

Source: In Words of...

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Kathryn Hulme: The dark-veiled silhouette...

Kathryn Hulme: The dark-veiled silhouette...

The dark-veiled silhouette . . . that solitary form patrolling without visible strain or vainglory a demented...

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Susan Sontag: I was not...

Susan Sontag: I was not...

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my...

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Susan Sontag: Sadomasochism has always...

Susan Sontag: Sadomasochism has always...

Sadomasochism has always been the furthest reach of the sexual experience: when sex becomes most purely sexual, that...

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