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Bernice Johnson Reagon: Today whenever women...

Bernice Johnson Reagon: Today whenever women...

Today whenever women gather together it is not necessarily nurturing. It is coalition building. And if you feel the...

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Jessye Norman: The very best...

Jessye Norman: The very best...

The very best thing that could happen to a voice, if it shows any promise at all, is when it is very young to leave it...

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Lorraine Hansberry: Children see things...

Lorraine Hansberry: Children see things...

Children see things very well sometimes -- and idealists even better.

Source: In...

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Shana Alexander: When the prima...

Shana Alexander: When the prima...

When the prima ballerina found ground glass in her toe slipper . . . every other dancer in the company was equally...

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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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Helen Rowland: Every man wants...

Helen Rowland: Every man wants...

Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts and his higher nature --and another woman...

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Alice James: You must remember...

Alice James: You must remember...

You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is...

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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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Dorothy Parker: And there was...

Dorothy Parker: And there was...

And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right...

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Dorothy Parker: [We look like]...

Dorothy Parker: [We look like]...

[We look like] a road company of the Last Supper.

Source: On lunching with James...

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Belva Lockwood: The glory of...

Belva Lockwood: The glory of...

The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents.

Source: Quoted in: Mary...

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Beatrice Hinkle: When one looks...

Beatrice Hinkle: When one looks...

When one looks back over human existence however, it is very evident that all culture has developed through an initial...

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Ruth Benedict: . ....

Ruth Benedict: . ....

. . . work even when I'm satisfied with it is never my child I love nor my servant I've brought to heel. It's always...

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Mary Renault: In hatred as...

Mary Renault: In hatred as...

In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very...

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Jean Rhys: I like shape...

Jean Rhys: I like shape...

I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any.

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Shirley Jackson: The idea of...

Shirley Jackson: The idea of...

The idea of a series of items, following one another docilely, forms the only possible reasonable approach to life if...

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Naomi Mitchison: After you've written...

Naomi Mitchison: After you've written...

After you've written about something once, though, it's very dangerous to try and do it again. The original story was...

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Marion Zimmer Bradley: The truth is...

Marion Zimmer Bradley: The truth is...

The truth is not so good a story.

Source: The Firebrand, 1987.
-- Marion Zimmer...

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Nella Larsen: It was ....

Nella Larsen: It was ....

It was . . . enough to suffer as a woman, an individual, on one's own account, without having to suffer for the race...

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Lisa Alther: That's the risk...

Lisa Alther: That's the risk...

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people...

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