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Susan Sontag: Societies need to...

Susan Sontag: Societies need to...

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its...

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Rebecca Harding Davis: Be just --...

Rebecca Harding Davis: Be just --...

Be just -- not like man's law, which seizes on one isolated fact, but like God's judging angel, whose clear, sad eye...

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Helen Rowland: There aren't any...

Helen Rowland: There aren't any...

There aren't any embarrassing questions - only embarrassing answers.

Source: New...

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Carolyn Heilbrun: Life has this...

Carolyn Heilbrun: Life has this...

Life has this in common with prizefighting: if you've received a belly blow, it's likely to be followed by a right to...

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Judith Crist: [Youngsters] are nurtured...

Judith Crist: [Youngsters] are nurtured...

[Youngsters] are nurtured from infancy on a Dick-and-Jane literary and artistic level; and the cultural drought, as...

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Helen Keller: I have often...

Helen Keller: I have often...

I have often been asked, Do not people bore you? I do not understand quite what that means. I suppose the calls of...

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Helen Keller: Of all the...

Helen Keller: Of all the...

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Dorothy Parker: Gratitude -- the...

Dorothy Parker: Gratitude -- the...

Gratitude -- the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world.

Source: In...

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Dorothy Parker: And there was...

Dorothy Parker: And there was...

And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right...

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Susan Faludi: Feminism's agenda is...

Susan Faludi: Feminism's agenda is...

Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to choose between public justice and private...

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Gracie Allen: Brains, integrity, and...

Gracie Allen: Brains, integrity, and...

Brains, integrity, and force may be all very well, but what you need today is Charm. Go ahead and work on your...

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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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Ethel Barrymore: That's all there...

Ethel Barrymore: That's all there...

That's all there is, there isn't any more.

Source: Curtain call, 1904.
-- Ethel...

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Shirley Temple Black: No country has...

Shirley Temple Black: No country has...

No country has washed more dirty laundry in public than we have.

Source: In...

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Emily Dickinson: Heaven is so...

Emily Dickinson: Heaven is so...

Heaven is so far of the Mind
That were the Mind dissolved --
The Site --of it --by Architect
Could not again...

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Emily Dickinson: That it will...

Emily Dickinson: That it will...

That it will never come again
Is what makes life so sweet.


Source: poem no....

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Isadora Duncan: All my life...

Isadora Duncan: All my life...

All my life I have struggled to make one authentic gesture.

Source: In The...

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Judith Jamison: I remember always...

Judith Jamison: I remember always...

I remember always the need to know myself, because if I avoid know ing who I am deep inside, then I can't express what...

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George Eliot: Sir Joshua would...

George Eliot: Sir Joshua would...

Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least...

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George Eliot: Our passions do...

George Eliot: Our passions do...

Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions...

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