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Jane Smiley: I have noticed...

Jane Smiley: I have noticed...

I have noticed before that there is a category of acquaintanceship that is not friendship or business or romance, but...

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Amie Comeaux: Sometimes in spite...

Amie Comeaux: Sometimes in spite...

Sometimes in spite of difference
Sometimes against all odds
Some things are meant to happen
It's written in...

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Erica Jong: Writing is one...

Erica Jong: Writing is one...

Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really...

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Nora Ephron: When you have...

Nora Ephron: When you have...

When you have a baby, you set off an explosion in your marriage, and when the dust settles, your marriage is different...

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George Eliot: Ignorant kindness may...

George Eliot: Ignorant kindness may...

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an...

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George Eliot: All meanings, we...

George Eliot: All meanings, we...

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

Source: Daniel Deronda,...

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Helen Keller: When we do...

Helen Keller: When we do...

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of...

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Marjorie Holmes: What feeling is...

Marjorie Holmes: What feeling is...

What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter...

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Simone de Beauvoir: Patience is one...

Simone de Beauvoir: Patience is one...

Patience is one of those feminine qualities which have their origin in our oppression but should be preserved after...

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Margaret Atwood: Popular art is...

Margaret Atwood: Popular art is...

Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.

Source: AQuestion...

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Simone de Beauvoir: There is no...

Simone de Beauvoir: There is no...

There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open...

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Alice Walker: God is inside...

Alice Walker: God is inside...

God is inside you and inside everybody else. But only them that search for it inside find it. And sometimes it just...

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Marya Mannes: The process of...

Marya Mannes: The process of...

The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself...

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Judith Viorst: Love is much...

Judith Viorst: Love is much...

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern...

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Simone de Beauvoir: The most mediocre...

Simone de Beauvoir: The most mediocre...

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

Source:...

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Johanna Spyri: Oh, I wish...

Johanna Spyri: Oh, I wish...

Oh, I wish that God had not given me what I prayed for! It was not so good as I thought.

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Anne Bronte: But he that...

Anne Bronte: But he that...

But he that dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.


Source: The...

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Dorothy Dix: I have learned...

Dorothy Dix: I have learned...

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace 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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Marion Zimmer Bradley: Some knowledge and...

Marion Zimmer Bradley: Some knowledge and...

Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into...

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