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Fran Lebowitz: Spilling your guts...

Fran Lebowitz: Spilling your guts...

Spilling your guts is just exactly as charming as it sounds.

Source: Social...

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Erma Bombeck: A child develops...

Erma Bombeck: A child develops...

A child develops individuality long before he develops taste. I have seen my kid straggle into the kitchen in the...

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Susan B Anthony: [T]here never will...

Susan B Anthony: [T]here never will...

[T]here never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect...

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Helen Keller: I can feel...

Helen Keller: I can feel...

I can feel the twinkle of his eye in his handshake.

Source: Reader's Digest,...

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Helen Keller: The welfare of...

Helen Keller: The welfare of...

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Helen Keller: [Death] is no...

Helen Keller: [Death] is no...

[Death] is no more than passing from one room to another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that...

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Dorothy Parker: I was fired...

Dorothy Parker: I was fired...

I was fired from there, finally, for a lot of things, among them my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was...

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Dorothy Parker: My verses, I...

Dorothy Parker: My verses, I...

My verses, I cannot say poems. . . . I was following in the exquisite footsteps of Miss Millay, unhappily in my own...

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Lady Marguerite Blessington: Friends are the...

Lady Marguerite Blessington: Friends are the...

Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.

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Harriet Lerner: Anger is a...

Harriet Lerner: Anger is a...

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Source: The Dance of Anger,...

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Julie Burchill: Writing is more...

Julie Burchill: Writing is more...

Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful...

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Mignon McLaughlin: For the happiest...

Mignon McLaughlin: For the happiest...

For the happiest life, days should he rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

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Susan Sontag: One set of...

Susan Sontag: One set of...

One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse...

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Helen Rowland: Marriage is the...

Helen Rowland: Marriage is the...

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an...

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Lost time was...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Lost time was...

Lost time was like a run in a stocking. It always got worse.

Source: In Words of...

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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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June Jordan: Body and soul,...

June Jordan: Body and soul,...

Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity:...

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Dorothy Parker: People Who Do...

Dorothy Parker: People Who Do...

People Who Do things, exceed my endurance;
God, for a man that solicits insurance!


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Dorothy Parker: Sorrow is tranquillity...

Dorothy Parker: Sorrow is tranquillity...

Sorrow is tranquillity remembered in emotion.

Source: Sentiment.
-- Dorothy...

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Dorothy Parker: As only New...

Dorothy Parker: As only New...

As only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the...

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