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Emily Dickinson: My friends are...

Emily Dickinson: My friends are...

My friends are my estate.

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

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Anne Baxter: My grandfather Frank...

Anne Baxter: My grandfather Frank...

My grandfather Frank Lloyd Wright wore a red sash on his wedding night. That, is glamour!

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Emily Dickinson: What fortitude the...

Emily Dickinson: What fortitude the...

What fortitude the Soul contains,
That it can so endure
The accent of a coming Foot--
The opening of a...

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Audre Lorde: Our visions begin...

Audre Lorde: Our visions begin...

Our visions begin with our desires.

Source: In Black Women Writers at Work,...

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Roseanne Barr: A good...

Roseanne Barr: A good...

A good man doesn't just happen. They have to be created by us women. A guy is a lump like a...

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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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Janet Erskine Stuart: You must grow...

Janet Erskine Stuart: You must grow...

You must grow like a tree, not like a mushroom.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Edith Sitwell: My personal hobbies...

Edith Sitwell: My personal hobbies...

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

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Grace Hansen: A wedding is...

Grace Hansen: A wedding is...

A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers.

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Joni Mitchell: I've looked at...

Joni Mitchell: I've looked at...

I've looked at life from both sides now
From win and lose and still somehow
It's life's illusions I recall
I...

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Roseanne Barr: Beauty comes in...

Roseanne Barr: Beauty comes in...

Beauty comes in all sizes-not just size 5.

Source: In The Quotable Quotations Book,...

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Emily Dickinson: There's a certain...

Emily Dickinson: There's a certain...

There's a certain slant of light,
On winter afternoons,
That oppresses, like the weight
Of Cathedral...

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Emily Dickinson: To see the...

Emily Dickinson: To see the...

To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie --
True Poems flee --


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Rita Dove: If only the...

Rita Dove: If only the...

If only the sun-drenched celebrities are being noticed and worshiped, then our children are going to have a tough time...

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Helen Rowland: Nowadays love is...

Helen Rowland: Nowadays love is...

Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of...

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Writing is thinking....

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Writing is thinking....

Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.

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Barbara Ehrenreich: Imagine spending four...

Barbara Ehrenreich: Imagine spending four...

Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and...

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Cynthia Heimel: A woman needs...

Cynthia Heimel: A woman needs...

A woman needs a man like a fish needs a net.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations...

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Andrea Dworkin: Monroe, the consummate...

Andrea Dworkin: Monroe, the consummate...

Monroe, the consummate sexual doll, is empowered to act but afraid to act, perhaps because no amount of acting,...

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Sylvia Pankhurst: . . ....

Sylvia Pankhurst: . . ....

. . . the fact that [English] has shed most of the old grammatical forms which time has rendered useless and scarcely...

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