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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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Lillian Hellman: God forgives those...

Lillian Hellman: God forgives those...

God forgives those who invent what they need.

Source: The Little Foxes, 1939.
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Tallulah Bankhead: I'm as pure...

Tallulah Bankhead: I'm as pure...

I'm as pure as the driven slush.

Source: The Observer, 'Sayings of the Week', 24...

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Roseanne Barr: I figure if...

Roseanne Barr: I figure if...

I figure if my kids are alive at the end of the day, I've done my job.

Source: In...

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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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Emily Dickinson: This is my...

Emily Dickinson: This is my...

This is my letter to the World
That never wrote to Me--
The simple News that Nature told--
With tender...

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Cher: I won't be...

Cher: I won't be...

I won't be able to do what I'm doing forever. There aren't that many scripts floating around for fifty-year-old...

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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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Helen Rowland: There are two...

Helen Rowland: There are two...

There are two kinds of men -- dead and deadly.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Katharine Whitehorn: The best careers...

Katharine Whitehorn: The best careers...

The best careers advice to give to the young is 'Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for...

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Mary Austin: When a woman...

Mary Austin: When a woman...

When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of her...

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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: She had spent...

Dorothy Parker: She had spent...

She had spent the golden time in grudging its going.

Source: The Lovely Leave, in...

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Andrea Dworkin: Romantic love, in...

Andrea Dworkin: Romantic love, in...

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined...

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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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Lady Marguerite Blessington: Mountains appear more...

Lady Marguerite Blessington: Mountains appear more...

Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this...

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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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Phyllis George: There's a fine...

Phyllis George: There's a fine...

There's a fine line between being sweet and innocent and being a tough broad.

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Hannah More: Going to the...

Hannah More: Going to the...

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

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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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