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Fran Lebowitz: Radio news is...

Fran Lebowitz: Radio news is...

Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc jockey is not allowed...

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Susan Sontag: In America, the...

Susan Sontag: In America, the...

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents...

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Susan Sontag: It is not...

Susan Sontag: It is not...

It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph -- only less interesting, less...

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Susan Sontag: It's fantastic knowing...

Susan Sontag: It's fantastic knowing...

It's fantastic knowing you're going to die; it really makes having priorities and trying to follow them very real to...

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Susan Sontag: Lying is an...

Susan Sontag: Lying is an...

Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Helen Keller: When we do...

Helen Keller: When we do...

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of...

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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: There must be...

Dorothy Parker: There must be...

There must be courage; there must be no awe. There must be criticism, for humor, to my mind, is encapsulated in...

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Helen Rowland: No girl who...

Helen Rowland: No girl who...

No girl who is going to marry need bother to win a college degree; she just naturally becomes a Master of Arts and a...

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Helen Rowland: To a woman...

Helen Rowland: To a woman...

To a woman the first kiss is just the end of the beginning, but to a man it is the beginning of the...

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Helen Rowland: When you see...

Helen Rowland: When you see...

When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.

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Simone de Beauvoir: Buying is a...

Simone de Beauvoir: Buying is a...

Buying is a profound pleasure.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Helen Rowland: Love: woman's eternal...

Helen Rowland: Love: woman's eternal...

Love: woman's eternal spring and man's eternal fall.

Source:
-- Helen Rowland,...

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Helen Rowland: Marriage is the...

Helen Rowland: Marriage is the...

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: To give without...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: To give without...

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.

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Simone de Beauvoir: One's life has...

Simone de Beauvoir: One's life has...

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation...

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Ingrid Bengis: Imagination has always...

Ingrid Bengis: Imagination has always...

Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match.

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Susan B Anthony: Many abolitionists have...

Susan B Anthony: Many abolitionists have...

Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.

Source: Journal,...

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Susan B Anthony: I can't say...

Susan B Anthony: I can't say...

I can't say that the college-bred woman is the most contented woman. The broader her mind the more she understands the...

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Helen Keller: The world is...

Helen Keller: The world is...

The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest...

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