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Fran Lebowitz: If you are...

Fran Lebowitz: If you are...

If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget...

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Erma Bombeck: Don't confuse fame...

Erma Bombeck: Don't confuse fame...

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Source:...

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Erma Bombeck: The only reason...

Erma Bombeck: The only reason...

The only reason I would take up jogging is so I could hear heavy breathing again.

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Marya Mannes: Timing and arrogance...

Marya Mannes: Timing and arrogance...

Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.

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Dorothy Parker: Every year, back...

Dorothy Parker: Every year, back...

Every year, back come Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with...

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Dorothy Parker: As artists they're...

Dorothy Parker: As artists they're...

As artists they're rot, but as providers they're oil wells; they gush. Norris said she never wrote a story unless it...

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Susan Sontag: The aim of...

Susan Sontag: The aim of...

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art -- and, by analogy, our own experience -- more,...

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Helen Rowland: Before marriage, a...

Helen Rowland: Before marriage, a...

Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down...

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Helen Rowland: Oh yes, there...

Helen Rowland: Oh yes, there...

Oh yes, there is a vast difference between the savage and the civilized man, but it is never apparent to their wives...

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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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Simone de Beauvoir: If you haven't...

Simone de Beauvoir: If you haven't...

If you haven't been happy very young, you can still be happy later on, but it's much harder. You need more...

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Catherine Drinker Bowen: Will the reader...

Catherine Drinker Bowen: Will the reader...

Will the reader turn the page?

Source: Note posted in her study, quoted in MD, Jul...

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Alice Embree: Humans must breathe,...

Alice Embree: Humans must breathe,...

Humans must breathe, but corporations must make money.

Source: Media Images 1:...

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Carol Gilligan: . ....

Carol Gilligan: . ....

. . . while men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance...

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Helen Rowland: When a man...

Helen Rowland: When a man...

When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his...

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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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Simone de Beauvoir: Let women be...

Simone de Beauvoir: Let women be...

Let women be provided with living strength of their own. Let them have the means to attack the world and wrest from...

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Helen Keller: One should never...

Helen Keller: One should never...

One should never count the years -- one should instead count one's interests. I have kept young trying never to lose...

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Helen Keller: The highest result...

Helen Keller: The highest result...

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Source: 'Optimism'
-- Helen...

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Dorothy Parker: Because he spills...

Dorothy Parker: Because he spills...

Because he spills his seed on the ground.

Source: On naming her canary 'Onan';...

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