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Babe Didrikson Zaharias: Winning has always...

Babe Didrikson Zaharias: Winning has always...

Winning has always meant much to me, but winning friends has meant the most.

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Jane Austen: To sit in...

Jane Austen: To sit in...

To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

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Elinor Glyn: A madness of...

Elinor Glyn: A madness of...

A madness of tender caressing seized her. She purred as a tiger might have done, while she undulated like a...

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Eva Figes: Providing for one's...

Eva Figes: Providing for one's...

Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a water-tight excuse for making money hand over...

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Brigid Brophy: I refuse to...

Brigid Brophy: I refuse to...

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my...

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Ivy Compton-Burnett: My youth is...

Ivy Compton-Burnett: My youth is...

My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.

Source: A Heritage and...

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Rumer Godden: Pax: peace, but...

Rumer Godden: Pax: peace, but...

Pax: peace, but what a strange peace, made of unremitting toil and effort, seldom with a seen result. ....

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George Eliot: Great feelings will...

George Eliot: Great feelings will...

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of...

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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: My own experience...

George Eliot: My own experience...

My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree...

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George Eliot: A toddling little...

George Eliot: A toddling little...

A toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each...

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George Eliot: Rome, the city...

George Eliot: Rome, the city...

Rome, the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with...

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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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Miriam Makeba: I look at...

Miriam Makeba: I look at...

I look at a stream and I see myself: a native South African, flowing irresistibly over hard obstacles until they...

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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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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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Isadora Duncan: Most human beings...

Isadora Duncan: Most human beings...

Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional...

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Jessye Norman: The very best...

Jessye Norman: The very best...

The very best thing that could happen to a voice, if it shows any promise at all, is when it is very young to leave it...

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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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Emily Dickinson: Fame is a...

Emily Dickinson: Fame is a...

Fame is a bee
It has a song --
It has a sting --
Ah, too, it has a wing.


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