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Harriet Ann Jacobs: Lives that flash...

Harriet Ann Jacobs: Lives that flash...

Lives that flash in sunshine, and lives that are born in tears, receive their hue from...

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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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Jean Kerr: Some people have...

Jean Kerr: Some people have...

Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so...

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Jamaica Kincaid: I swim in...

Jamaica Kincaid: I swim in...

I swim in a shaft of light, upside down, and I can see myself clearly, through and through, from every angle. Perhaps...

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Toni Cade Bambara: And what is...

Toni Cade Bambara: And what is...

And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.

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George Eliot: Of what use,...

George Eliot: Of what use,...

Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need...

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George Eliot: I have the...

George Eliot: I have the...

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

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Jane Austen: If there is...

Jane Austen: If there is...

If there is anything disagreeable going on, men are sure to get out of it.

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Jane Austen: The little bit...

Jane Austen: The little bit...

The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much...

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Jane Austen: You mistake me,...

Jane Austen: You mistake me,...

You mistake me, my dear. I have a high repect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them...

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Barbara Cartland: As long as...

Barbara Cartland: As long as...

As long as the plots keep arriving from outer space, I'll go on with my virgins.

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Marion Zimmer Bradley: Some knowledge and...

Marion Zimmer Bradley: Some knowledge and...

Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into...

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Madeleine L'Engle: I love my...

Madeleine L'Engle: I love my...

I love my mother, not as a prisoner of atherosclerosis, but as a person; and I must love her enough to accept her as...

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Lois McMaster Bujold: If you can't...

Lois McMaster Bujold: If you can't...

If you can't do what you want, do what you can.

Source: In Collection of 10,000...

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George Eliot: Those who trust...

George Eliot: Those who trust...

Those who trust us educate us.

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-- George Eliot, (Nov 22 1819-1880),...

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Gertrude Stein: It takes a...

Gertrude Stein: It takes a...

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing...

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M F K Fisher: People ask me:...

M F K Fisher: People ask me:...

People ask me: Why do you write about food, and eating, and drinking? Why don't you write about the struggle for power...

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Ruth Benedict: The adequate study...

Ruth Benedict: The adequate study...

The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only...

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George Eliot: There is no...

George Eliot: There is no...

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

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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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