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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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Margaret Anderson: My unreality is...

Margaret Anderson: My unreality is...

My unreality is chiefly this: I have never felt much like a human being. It's a splendid...

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Margaret Anderson: Art to me...

Margaret Anderson: Art to me...

Art to me was a state: it didn't need to be an accomplishment.

Source: The Fiery...

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Judith Crist: [Youngsters] are nurtured...

Judith Crist: [Youngsters] are nurtured...

[Youngsters] are nurtured from infancy on a Dick-and-Jane literary and artistic level; and the cultural drought, as...

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Fran Lebowitz: . . .to...

Fran Lebowitz: . . .to...

. . .to me the outdoors is what you have to pass through in order to get from your apartment into a...

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Maya Angelou: Self-pity in its...

Maya Angelou: Self-pity in its...

Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become...

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Susan Sontag: The fact that...

Susan Sontag: The fact that...

The fact that illness is associated with the poor --who are, from the perspective of the privileged, aliens in one's...

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Helen Rowland: A man snatches...

Helen Rowland: A man snatches...

A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth -- and...

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Helen Rowland: Marriage: A souvenir...

Helen Rowland: Marriage: A souvenir...

Marriage: A souvenir of love.

Source: In An Uncommon Scold, by Abby Adams,...

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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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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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Jane Smiley: I have noticed...

Jane Smiley: I have noticed...

I have noticed before that there is a category of acquaintanceship that is not friendship or business or romance, but...

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Monica Baldwin: The refectory is...

Monica Baldwin: The refectory is...

The refectory is a cenacle in which the taking of food is transfigured almost into a...

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Helen Keller: It's wonderful to...

Helen Keller: It's wonderful to...

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no...

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Dorothy Parker: Four be the...

Dorothy Parker: Four be the...

Four be the things I'd been better without:
Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.


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Nadia Boulanger: A great work...

Nadia Boulanger: A great work...

A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.

Source: In...

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Emily Dickinson: Much Madness is...

Emily Dickinson: Much Madness is...

Much Madness is divinest Sense --
To a discerning Eye --
Much Sense --the starkest Madness...

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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.

Source:
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Lydia M Child: That man's best...

Lydia M Child: That man's best...

That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that...

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