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George Eliot: Any coward can...

George Eliot: Any coward can...

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of...

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Helen Gurley Brown: No office anywhere...

Helen Gurley Brown: No office anywhere...

No office anywhere on earth is so puritanical, impeccable, elegant, sterile or incorruptible as not to contain the...

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Fran Lebowitz: Even when freshly...

Fran Lebowitz: Even when freshly...

Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be...

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Dorothy Parker: All I say...

Dorothy Parker: All I say...

All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You...

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Dorothy Parker: I'm never going...

Dorothy Parker: I'm never going...

I'm never going to be famous . . . I don't do anything. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't...

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Dorothy Parker: By the time...

Dorothy Parker: By the time...

By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing,
And he vows his passion is
Infinite, undying...

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Dorothy Parker: He has a...

Dorothy Parker: He has a...

He has a capacity for enjoyment so vast that he gives away great chunks to those about him, and never even misses...

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Dorothy Parker: His ignorance was...

Dorothy Parker: His ignorance was...

His ignorance was an Empire State Building of ignorance. You had to admire it for its...

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Susan B Anthony: [T]here never will...

Susan B Anthony: [T]here never will...

[T]here never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect...

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Babe Didrikson Zaharias: Winning has always...

Babe Didrikson Zaharias: Winning has always...

Winning has always meant much to me, but winning friends has meant the most.

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Helen Rowland: Woman! The peg...

Helen Rowland: Woman! The peg...

Woman! The peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch, and the sinner his...

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Grace Paley: . . ....

Grace Paley: . . ....

. . . people will sometimes say, Why don't you write more politics? And I have to explain to them that writing the...

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Liz Carpenter: Instead of looking...

Liz Carpenter: Instead of looking...

Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to...

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Virgilia Peterson: Love by its...

Virgilia Peterson: Love by its...

Love by its presence, like God by His, makes everything not necessarily clear or right or even good, but acceptable....

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Elsa Maxwell: Giving parties is...

Elsa Maxwell: Giving parties is...

Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity.

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Renata Adler: At six one...

Renata Adler: At six one...

At six one morning, Will went out in jeans and frayed sweater to buy a quart of milk. A tourist bus went by. The...

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Shana Alexander: I don't believe...

Shana Alexander: I don't believe...

I don't believe man is woman's natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is.

Source:
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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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Shana Alexander: Evolution is fascinating...

Shana Alexander: Evolution is fascinating...

Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single...

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Harriet Lerner: Anger is a...

Harriet Lerner: Anger is a...

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Source: The Dance of Anger,...

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