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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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Diane Ackerman: I don't want...

Diane Ackerman: I don't want...

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the...

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Emily Dickinson: Fame is a...

Emily Dickinson: Fame is a...

Fame is a fickle food
Upon a shifting plate.


Source: c. 1864; The Single Hound,...

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Emily Dickinson: We turn not...

Emily Dickinson: We turn not...

We turn not older with years, but newer every day.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Catherine Deneuve: Film is a...

Catherine Deneuve: Film is a...

Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and...

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Mae West: Right now I...

Mae West: Right now I...

Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be...

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Roseanne Barr: My husband and...

Roseanne Barr: My husband and...

My husband and I didn't sign a pre-nuptial agreement. We signed a mutual suicide pact.

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Roseanne Barr: Excuse the mess...

Roseanne Barr: Excuse the mess...

Excuse the mess but we live here.

Source: In The Almanac of Quotable Quotes from...

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Shirley MacLaine: I've made so...

Shirley MacLaine: I've made so...

I've made so many movies playing a hooker that they don't pay me in the regular way any more. They leave it on the...

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Helen Gahagan Douglas: I never felt...

Helen Gahagan Douglas: I never felt...

I never felt I left the stage.

Source: On being a politician; Center Stage,...

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Judith Jamison: Dance is about...

Judith Jamison: Dance is about...

Dance is about never-ending aspiration.

Source: Dancing Spirit, 1993.
-- Judith...

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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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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: I don't know...

Dorothy Parker: I don't know...

I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.

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Dorothy Parker: I shall stay...

Dorothy Parker: I shall stay...

I shall stay the way I am because I do not give a damn.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Anne Frank: Parents can only...

Anne Frank: Parents can only...

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies...

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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: There's so much...

Helen Rowland: There's so much...

There's so much saint in the worst of them, and so much devil in the best of them, that a woman who's married to one...

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: The only real...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: The only real...

The only real security in a relationship lies neither in looking back in nostalgia, nor forward in dread or...

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