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Harriet Beecher Stowe: When you get...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: When you get...

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a...

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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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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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Francoise Sagan: The one thing...

Francoise Sagan: The one thing...

The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to...

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Lisa Alther: I wrote for...

Lisa Alther: I wrote for...

I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside...

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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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George Eliot: We must find...

George Eliot: We must find...

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

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Iris Murdoch: Happiness is a...

Iris Murdoch: Happiness is a...

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with...

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: If the study...

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: If the study...

If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections, and to destroy your taste for those...

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Judith Rossner: It is easier...

Judith Rossner: It is easier...

It is easier to betray than to remain loyal. It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself...

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Lois McMaster Bujold: All virtues come...

Lois McMaster Bujold: All virtues come...

All virtues come down to courage, at the sharp end of the sword. But courage must be tempered by prudence. Courage...

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Margaret Atwood: The answers you...

Margaret Atwood: The answers you...

The answers you get from literature depend upon the questions you pose.

Source: In...

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Margaret Atwood: Another belief of...

Margaret Atwood: Another belief of...

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely 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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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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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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Vera Brittain: There is an...

Vera Brittain: There is an...

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no...

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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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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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Helen Keller: Toleration is the...

Helen Keller: Toleration is the...

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself...

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