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Joyce Brothers: Accept that all...

Joyce Brothers: Accept that all...

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can -- and surely will at times -- fail. I think we should follow a...

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Jane Austen: One does not...

Jane Austen: One does not...

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but...

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Jane Austen: You ought certainly...

Jane Austen: You ought certainly...

You ought certainly to forgive them, as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be...

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Mary Wortley Montagu: I despise the...

Mary Wortley Montagu: I despise the...

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: Mothers are the...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Mothers are the...

Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.

Source: In Readers' Digest.
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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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P D James: A man who...

P D James: A man who...

A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English...

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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps: A great idea...

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps: A great idea...

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas...

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Lisa Alther: That's the risk...

Lisa Alther: That's the risk...

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people...

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Sylvia Plath: There must be...

Sylvia Plath: There must be...

There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.

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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Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.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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Janet Frame: Electricity, the peril...

Janet Frame: Electricity, the peril...

Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day. . .

Source:...

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Ursula Le Guin: It is good...

Ursula Le Guin: It is good...

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the...

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George Eliot: What a wretched...

George Eliot: What a wretched...

What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind --the uglier we get in the eyes of...

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Enid Bagnold: When a man...

Enid Bagnold: When a man...

When a man goes through six years' training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too...

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Clara Barton: . . ....

Clara Barton: . . ....

. . . the door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.

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Emily Blackwell: Health has its...

Emily Blackwell: Health has its...

Health has its science as well as disease. . .

Source: Written with her sister...

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Joyce Brothers: A strong, positive...

Joyce Brothers: A strong, positive...

A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.

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Barbara Ehrenreich: The truth is,...

Barbara Ehrenreich: The truth is,...

The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other...

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