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Dorothy Parker: There is entirely...

Dorothy Parker: There is entirely...

There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.

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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: Work is the...

Dorothy Parker: Work is the...

Work is the province of cattle.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for Success,...

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Dorothy Parker: There must be...

Dorothy Parker: There must be...

There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about...

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Peace Pilgrim: No one can...

Peace Pilgrim: No one can...

No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human...

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Andrea Dworkin: Woman is not...

Andrea Dworkin: Woman is not...

Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that:...

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Maya Angelou: [Work is] something...

Maya Angelou: [Work is] something...

[Work is] something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.

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Helen Rowland: It isn't tying...

Helen Rowland: It isn't tying...

It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying, it's separating himself from all the...

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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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Simone de Beauvoir: To make oneself...

Simone de Beauvoir: To make oneself...

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive...

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Gail Sheehy: If every day...

Gail Sheehy: If every day...

If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.

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Carol Gilligan: . ....

Carol Gilligan: . ....

. . . while men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance...

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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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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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Caroline Sheridan Norton: My beautiful, my...

Caroline Sheridan Norton: My beautiful, my...

My beautiful, my beautiful! That standest meekly by,
With thy proudly-arched and glossy neck, and dark and fiery...

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Susan RoAne: The time spent...

Susan RoAne: The time spent...

The time spent identifying your base of contacts is an investment in your success and the success of others with whom...

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Sarah Caldwell: If you approach...

Sarah Caldwell: If you approach...

If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach...

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Joni Mitchell: And the seasons,...

Joni Mitchell: And the seasons,...

And the seasons, they go round and round,
And the painted ponies go up and down.
We're captive on the carousel...

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Jessye Norman: Problems arise in...

Jessye Norman: Problems arise in...

Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for...

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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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