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George Eliot: An election is...

George Eliot: An election is...

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of...

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George Eliot: Our virtues are...

George Eliot: Our virtues are...

Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound...

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Margaret Anderson: I wasn't born...

Margaret Anderson: I wasn't born...

I wasn't born to be a fighter. The causes I have fought for have invariably been causes that should have been gained...

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Jean Kerr: Man is the...

Jean Kerr: Man is the...

Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes...

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Helen Rowland: It's easier to...

Helen Rowland: It's easier to...

It's easier to hide your light under a bushel than to keep your shady side dark.

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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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Dorothy Parker: Outspoken by whom?...

Dorothy Parker: Outspoken by whom?...

Outspoken by whom?

Source: When told that she was very outspoken; attributed.
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Molly Ivins: With politicians, artful...

Molly Ivins: With politicians, artful...

With politicians, artful evasion is always preferable to the outright be.

Source: ...

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Simone de Beauvoir: We always come...

Simone de Beauvoir: We always come...

We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with...

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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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Hortense Calisher: First publication is...

Hortense Calisher: First publication is...

First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life.

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Andrea Dworkin: Wealth of any...

Andrea Dworkin: Wealth of any...

Wealth of any kind, is an expression of male sexual power.

Source: Pornography,...

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Germaine Greer: Perhaps catastrophe is...

Germaine Greer: Perhaps catastrophe is...

Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get...

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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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Miriam Makeba: I look at...

Miriam Makeba: I look at...

I look at a stream and I see myself: a native South African, flowing irresistibly over hard obstacles until they...

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Mariah Carey: Music is what...

Mariah Carey: Music is what...

Music is what I love and it's what I feel and it's in me and to know that I can do something that I enjoy and...

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Camille Paglia: Every man must...

Camille Paglia: Every man must...

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed...

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Emily Dickinson: The abdication of...

Emily Dickinson: The abdication of...

The abdication of Belief
Makes the Behavior small --
Better an ignis fatuus
Than no illume at...

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Helen Hayes: Everybody starts at...

Helen Hayes: Everybody starts at...

Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, however, is still...

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Britney Spears: When you sing...

Britney Spears: When you sing...

When you sing a song with feeling and do your all you connect and that's crucial to me.

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