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Joyce Brothers: Trust your hunches....

Joyce Brothers: Trust your hunches....

Trust your hunches. . . . Hunches are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. Warning! Do...

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George Eliot: And when a...

George Eliot: And when a...

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be...

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Shirley Hufstedler: The role of...

Shirley Hufstedler: The role of...

The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most...

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Nora Ephron: When you have...

Nora Ephron: When you have...

When you have a baby, you set off an explosion in your marriage, and when the dust settles, your marriage is different...

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Lisa Alther: . . ....

Lisa Alther: . . ....

. . . inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.

Source: In Words of...

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Marion Zimmer Bradley: Some knowledge and...

Marion Zimmer Bradley: Some knowledge and...

Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into...

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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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Rumer Godden: The stitch of...

Rumer Godden: The stitch of...

The stitch of a book is its words.

Source: In Book-of-the-Month Club News, Sep...

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Sylvia Plath: Nothing stinks like...

Sylvia Plath: Nothing stinks like...

Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.

Source: In The Fourth 637 Best...

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Joyce Carol Oates: Our enemy is...

Joyce Carol Oates: Our enemy is...

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Source:...

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Katherine Anne Porter: Our being is...

Katherine Anne Porter: Our being is...

Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do....

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Cynthia Ozick: After a certain...

Cynthia Ozick: After a certain...

After a certain number of years our faces become our biographies. We get to be responsible for our...

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June Singer: Is it sufficient...

June Singer: Is it sufficient...

Is it sufficient that you have learned to drive the car, or shall we look and see what is under the hood? Most people...

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Han Suyin: . . ....

Han Suyin: . . ....

. . . love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort...

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Jean Rhys: She could give...

Jean Rhys: She could give...

She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. But...

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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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Lisa Alther: Dying was apparently...

Lisa Alther: Dying was apparently...

Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be...

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Gertrude Stein: It takes a...

Gertrude Stein: It takes a...

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing...

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Alice Walker: Expect nothing. Live...

Alice Walker: Expect nothing. Live...

Expect nothing. Live frugally
On surprise.


Source: Expect Nothing, Revolutionary...

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Lauren Bacall: A man's illness...

Lauren Bacall: A man's illness...

A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an...

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