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Fran Lebowitz: The best fame...

Fran Lebowitz: The best fame...

The best fame is a writer's fame. It's enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to get you...

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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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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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Erma Bombeck: You hear a...

Erma Bombeck: You hear a...

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big...

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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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Emily Dickinson: The Possible's slow...

Emily Dickinson: The Possible's slow...

The Possible's slow fuse is lit
By the Imagination.


Source: In Webster's...

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Emily Dickinson: For each ecstatic...

Emily Dickinson: For each ecstatic...

For each ecstatic instant
We must an anguish pay
In keen and quivering ratio
To the...

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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: His mind of...

Emily Dickinson: His mind of...

His mind of man, a secret makes
I meet him with a start
He carries a circumference
In which I have no...

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Katharine Hepburn: As for me,...

Katharine Hepburn: As for me,...

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Source: Higham's 'Kate',...

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Joan Didion: You have to...

Joan Didion: You have to...

You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Emily Dickinson: The distance that...

Emily Dickinson: The distance that...

The distance that the dead have gone
Does not at first appear --
Their coming back seems possible
For many an...

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Emily Dickinson: I argue thee...

Emily Dickinson: I argue thee...

I argue thee that love is life
And life hath immortality.


Source: In Words of...

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Tallulah Bankhead: There is less...

Tallulah Bankhead: There is less...

There is less in this than meets the eye.

Source: Shouts and Murmurs, (A....

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Shirley MacLaine: I am an...

Shirley MacLaine: I am an...

I am an expert in hookers. I'm an expert in doormats. I'm an expert in victims. They were the best parts. And when I...

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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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Louisa May Alcott: I like to...

Louisa May Alcott: I like to...

I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever...

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George Eliot: It is possible...

George Eliot: It is possible...

It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the...

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Emily Blackwell: Our school education...

Emily Blackwell: Our school education...

Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.

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George Eliot: One way of...

George Eliot: One way of...

One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their...

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