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Betty Carter: If you're sitting...

Betty Carter: If you're sitting...

If you're sitting in that audience ready to figllt me from the very beginning, I'm going to have a hard time getting...

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Josephine Baker: I like Frenchmen...

Josephine Baker: I like Frenchmen...

I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely.

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Emily Dickinson: Till it has...

Emily Dickinson: Till it has...

Till it has loved, no man or woman can become itself.

Source: Letter, 187?; in...

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Emily Dickinson: What fortitude the...

Emily Dickinson: What fortitude the...

What fortitude the Soul contains,
That it can so endure
The accent of a coming Foot--
The opening of a...

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Phylicia Rashad: What he showed...

Phylicia Rashad: What he showed...

What he showed me was not what I had to get, but what I already have. I am just myself, and who I am is a...

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Helen Keller: God, Himself, is...

Helen Keller: God, Himself, is...

God, Himself, is not secure, having given man dominion over His work.

Source: In...

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Lady Marguerite Blessington: Memory seldom fails...

Lady Marguerite Blessington: Memory seldom fails...

Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes.

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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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Katherine F Gerould: Funny how people...

Katherine F Gerould: Funny how people...

Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true...

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Florence King: Showing up at...

Florence King: Showing up at...

Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start...

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Christiane Collange: We all have...

Christiane Collange: We all have...

We all have a tendency to obscure the forest of simple joys with the trees of problems.

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Fran Lebowitz: Very few people...

Fran Lebowitz: Very few people...

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the...

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Janet Flanner: Women have invented...

Janet Flanner: Women have invented...

Women have invented nothing in all that, except the men who were born as male babies and grew up to be men big enough...

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: The most exhausting...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: The most exhausting...

The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.

Source:...

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Suzanne LaFollette: There is nothing...

Suzanne LaFollette: There is nothing...

There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been...

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Cynthia Heimel: All men are...

Cynthia Heimel: All men are...

All men are not slimy warthogs. Some men are silly giraffes, some woebegone puppies, some insecure frogs. But if one...

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Helen Rowland: Marrying an old...

Helen Rowland: Marrying an old...

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

Source: Reflections...

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Katharine Whitehorn: The easiest way...

Katharine Whitehorn: The easiest way...

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

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Liz Carpenter: Instead of looking...

Liz Carpenter: Instead of looking...

Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to...

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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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