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Susan Sontag: Victims suggest innocence....

Susan Sontag: Victims suggest innocence....

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests...

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Renata Adler: Fear . ....

Renata Adler: Fear . ....

Fear . . . is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.

Source: In The Wit & Wisdom...

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Erma Bombeck: I take a...

Erma Bombeck: I take a...

I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: Checkout Time is 18...

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Rona Barrett: The healthy, the...

Rona Barrett: The healthy, the...

The healthy, the strong individual, is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has an abscess on his...

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Erma Bombeck: It is fast...

Erma Bombeck: It is fast...

It is fast approaching the point where I don't want to elect anyone stupid enough to want the...

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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: Everything has it...

Helen Keller: Everything has it...

Everything has it wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be...

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Helen Keller: It is not...

Helen Keller: It is not...

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world.

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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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Helen Rowland: The feminine vanity...

Helen Rowland: The feminine vanity...

The feminine vanity case is the grave of masculine illusions.

Source: In Webster's...

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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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Simone de Beauvoir: Live with no...

Simone de Beauvoir: Live with no...

Live with no time out.

Source: All Said and Done, 1974.
-- Simone de Beauvoir,...

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Maya Angelou: We need to...

Maya Angelou: We need to...

We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom.

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Susan Sontag: Fewer and fewer...

Susan Sontag: Fewer and fewer...

Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans -- the used...

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Susan Sontag: Sadomasochism has always...

Susan Sontag: Sadomasochism has always...

Sadomasochism has always been the furthest reach of the sexual experience: when sex becomes most purely sexual, that...

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Mae West: My advice to...

Mae West: My advice to...

My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned, what's left to...

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Shirley Temple Black: Won't the new...

Shirley Temple Black: Won't the new...

Won't the new 'Suggested for Mature Audience' protect our youngsters from such films? I don't believe so. I know many...

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Judith Jamison: People come to...

Judith Jamison: People come to...

People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them.

Source: in WomenSports...

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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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Ma Rainey: White folks hear...

Ma Rainey: White folks hear...

White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.

Source:...

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