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Harriet Beecher Stowe: The longest day...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: The longest day...

The longest day must have its close -- the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of...

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Grace Metalious: Even Tom Sawyer...

Grace Metalious: Even Tom Sawyer...

Even Tom Sawyer had a girlfriend . . .

Source: Defending Peyton Place, NY Mirror, 6...

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George Eliot: No evil dooms...

George Eliot: No evil dooms...

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape...

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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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Erma Bombeck: There is a...

Erma Bombeck: There is a...

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. And how do you know...

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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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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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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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Helen Rowland: Failing to be...

Helen Rowland: Failing to be...

Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want...

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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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Peggy Noonan: If you commit...

Peggy Noonan: If you commit...

If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be. Therefore you...

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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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Maya Angelou: Nature has no...

Maya Angelou: Nature has no...

Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, 'I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I...

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Susan Sontag: It is not...

Susan Sontag: It is not...

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

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Susan Sontag: The problems of...

Susan Sontag: The problems of...

The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or...

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Susan Sontag: Religion is probably,...

Susan Sontag: Religion is probably,...

Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing...

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Emily Dickinson: Hope is the...

Emily Dickinson: Hope is the...

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tunes without the words- /And never...

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Emily Dickinson: I measure every...

Emily Dickinson: I measure every...

I measure every Grief I meet
With narrow, probing Eyes --
I wonder if It weighs like Mine --
Or has an Easier...

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Oprah Winfrey: I am a...

Oprah Winfrey: I am a...

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and...

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Oprah Winfrey: If you come...

Oprah Winfrey: If you come...

If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.

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