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Nancy Friday: Spontaneous and honest...

Nancy Friday: Spontaneous and honest...

Spontaneous and honest love admits errors, hesitations, and human failings; it can be tested and repaired. Idealized...

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Pearl Buck: Every great mistake...

Pearl Buck: Every great mistake...

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps...

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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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Joyce Brothers: A philosopher is...

Joyce Brothers: A philosopher is...

A philosopher is a person who doesn't care which side his bread is buttered on; he knows he eats both sides...

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Pearl Buck: Life without idealism...

Pearl Buck: Life without idealism...

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just have hope or starve to death.

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Annie Dillard: The secret of...

Annie Dillard: The secret of...

The secret of seeing is to sail on solar wind. Hone and spread your spirit, till you yourself are a sail, whetted,...

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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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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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Marian Anderson: The minute a...

Marian Anderson: The minute a...

The minute a person whose word means a great deal dares to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others...

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Bette Midler: I always try...

Bette Midler: I always try...

I always try to balance the light with the heavy -- a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the...

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Bette Midler: It's the heart...

Bette Midler: It's the heart...

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Source: In The...

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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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Rita Dove: If only the...

Rita Dove: If only the...

If only the sun-drenched celebrities are being noticed and worshiped, then our children are going to have a tough time...

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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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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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Martha Graham: No artist is...

Martha Graham: No artist is...

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the...

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Lotte Lehmann: For what mission...

Lotte Lehmann: For what mission...

For what mission can be greater than that of giving to the world hours of exaltation in which it may forget the misery...

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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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Gilda Radner: I wanted a...

Gilda Radner: I wanted a...

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a...

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