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Phylicia Rashad: What he showed...

Phylicia Rashad: What he showed...

What he showed me was not what I had to get, but what I already have. I am just myself, and who I am is a...

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Roseanne Barr: There's nothing like...

Roseanne Barr: There's nothing like...

There's nothing like a hardship song to set my toes atappin.

Source: In The...

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Emily Dickinson: There is no...

Emily Dickinson: There is no...

There is no Frigate like a Book
To take us Lands away
Nor any Coursers like a Page
Of prancing...

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Emily Dickinson: Remorse --is Memory...

Emily Dickinson: Remorse --is Memory...

Remorse --is Memory --awake --
Her Parties all astir --
A Presence of Departed Acts --
At window --and at...

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Maxine Kumin: With the poem,...

Maxine Kumin: With the poem,...

With the poem, I reach out to an audience equally at odds with official policy, and I celebrate our mutual humanness...

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Nadia Boulanger: Life is denied...

Nadia Boulanger: Life is denied...

Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a...

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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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Maria Callas: I would like...

Maria Callas: I would like...

I would like to be Maria, but there is Las Callas who demands that I carry myself with her...

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Shirley Jackson: It is only...

Shirley Jackson: It is only...

It is only with the eyes open that a corporeal form returns, and assembles itself firmly around the hard core of...

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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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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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Patricia McKillip: [Imagination] must be...

Patricia McKillip: [Imagination] must be...

[Imagination] must be visited constantly, or else it begins to become restless and emit strange bellows at...

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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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George Eliot: The law and...

George Eliot: The law and...

The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes...

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George Eliot: The important work...

George Eliot: The important work...

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

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Ruth Benedict: I haven't strength...

Ruth Benedict: I haven't strength...

I haven't strength of mind not to need a career.

Source: In An Anthropologist at...

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Margery Allingham: In common with...

Margery Allingham: In common with...

In common with many Christians of the classic type he felt sincerely safer and more at ease when he had given away all...

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Germaine Greer: Libraries are reservoirs...

Germaine Greer: Libraries are reservoirs...

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy,...

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Andrea Dworkin: Genocide begins, however...

Andrea Dworkin: Genocide begins, however...

Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction...

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Andrea Dworkin: Men are rewarded...

Andrea Dworkin: Men are rewarded...

Men are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity by money, admiration,...

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