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Betty Carter: This is our...

Betty Carter: This is our...

This is our culture, and I don't care who the musician is, if he avoids black people, then he is scared of something....

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Emily Dickinson: To live is...

Emily Dickinson: To live is...

To live is so startling, it leaves little time for anything else.

Source: In...

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Emily Dickinson: To multiply the...

Emily Dickinson: To multiply the...

To multiply the harbors does not reduce the sea.

Source: Letter, 1879; in Letters...

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Beah Richards: Heaven and earth!...

Beah Richards: Heaven and earth!...

Heaven and earth! How is it that bodies join but never meet?

Source: It's Time for...

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Emily Dickinson: Surgeons must be...

Emily Dickinson: Surgeons must be...

Surgeons must be very careful,
When they take the knife!,
Underneath their fine incisions,
Stirs the Culprit...

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Emily Dickinson: This is the...

Emily Dickinson: This is the...

This is the Hour of Lead --
Remembered, if outlived,
As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow --
First --Chill...

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Maya Angelou: Self-pity in its...

Maya Angelou: Self-pity in its...

Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become...

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Susan Sontag: The becoming of...

Susan Sontag: The becoming of...

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.

Source:...

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Susan B Anthony: Oh, yes. I'd...

Susan B Anthony: Oh, yes. I'd...

Oh, yes. I'd do it all again; the spirit is willing yet; I feel the same desire to do the work but the flesh is weak....

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Peace Pilgrim: The way of...

Peace Pilgrim: The way of...

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all...

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Andrea Dworkin: The fact that...

Andrea Dworkin: The fact that...

The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to...

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Helen Keller: Resolve to keep...

Helen Keller: Resolve to keep...

Resolve to keep happy, and your joy shall form an invincible host against difficulty.

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Dorothy Parker: Oh, life is...

Dorothy Parker: Oh, life is...

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go...

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Dorothy Parker: All those writers...

Dorothy Parker: All those writers...

All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same...

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Dorothy Parker: There must be...

Dorothy Parker: There must be...

There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about...

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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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Dorothy Parker: This is on...

Dorothy Parker: This is on...

This is on me.

Source: Suggested epitaph for her own tombstone; in You Might As...

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Grace Metalious: I looked into...

Grace Metalious: I looked into...

I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself.

Source: On her bout with...

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Naomi Mitchison: Keep it light...

Naomi Mitchison: Keep it light...

Keep it light so you can say a lot more, especially if it's something you care about.

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George Eliot: Kisses honeyed by...

George Eliot: Kisses honeyed by...

Kisses honeyed by oblivion.

Source: The Spanish Gypsy, bk. 3, 1868.
-- George...

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