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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: Detachment is the...

Susan Sontag: Detachment is the...

Detachment is the prerogative of an elite; and as the dandy is the nineteenth century's surrogate for the aristocrat...

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Susan Sontag: Depression is melancholy...

Susan Sontag: Depression is melancholy...

Depression is melancholy minus its charms -- the animation, the fits.

Source:...

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Andrea Dworkin: Undernourished, intelligence becomes...

Andrea Dworkin: Undernourished, intelligence becomes...

Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body...

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Nancy Friday: Because society would...

Nancy Friday: Because society would...

Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off...

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Dorothy Parker: Just begin a...

Dorothy Parker: Just begin a...

Just begin a story with such a phrase as 'I remember Disraeli - poor old Dizz! - once saying to me, in answer to my...

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Helen Keller: Alone we can...

Helen Keller: Alone we can...

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Source: In Webster's...

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Helen Keller: Life is an...

Helen Keller: Life is an...

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others

Source:...

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Dorothy Parker: If you want...

Dorothy Parker: If you want...

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.

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Dorothy Parker: I misremember who...

Dorothy Parker: I misremember who...

I misremember who first was cruel enough to nurture the cocktail party into life. But perhaps it would be not too...

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Susan Sontag: He who despises...

Susan Sontag: He who despises...

He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.

Source: Death Kit,...

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Susan Sontag: This city is...

Susan Sontag: This city is...

This city is neither a jungle nor the moon. . . . In long shot: a cosmic smudge, a conglomerate of bleeding energies....

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Virgilia Peterson: Words have their...

Virgilia Peterson: Words have their...

Words have their genealogy, their history, their economy, their literature, their art and music, as too they have...

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Susan B Anthony: If all the...

Susan B Anthony: If all the...

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to...

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Sally Kempton: Women are natural...

Sally Kempton: Women are natural...

Women are natural guerrillas. Scheming, we nestle into the enemy's bed, avoiding open warfare, watching the options,...

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Faith Baldwin: Time is a...

Faith Baldwin: Time is a...

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

Source: Face Toward the...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: In all ranks...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: In all ranks...

In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: Whipping and abuse...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Whipping and abuse...

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum; you have to double the dose as the sensibilities...

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Ouida: The longest absence...

Ouida: The longest absence...

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant...

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Toni Cade Bambara: [W]e have not...

Toni Cade Bambara: [W]e have not...

[W]e have not been scuffling in this waste-howling wildness for the right to be stupid.

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