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Maya Angelou: Education helps one...

Maya Angelou: Education helps one...

Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.

Source: In...

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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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Fran Lebowitz: Spilling your guts...

Fran Lebowitz: Spilling your guts...

Spilling your guts is just exactly as charming as it sounds.

Source: Social...

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Fran Lebowitz: Large, naked, raw...

Fran Lebowitz: Large, naked, raw...

Large, naked, raw carrots are acceptable as food only to those who live in hutches eagerly awaiting...

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Shana Alexander: The mark of...

Shana Alexander: The mark of...

The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons...

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Dorothy Uhnak: He maintained that...

Dorothy Uhnak: He maintained that...

He maintained that the case was lost or won by the time the final juror had been sworn in; his summation was set in...

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Hortense Calisher: Every art is...

Hortense Calisher: Every art is...

Every art is a church without communicants, presided over by a parish of the respectable. An artist is born kneeling;...

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Emily Dickinson: Prayer is the...

Emily Dickinson: Prayer is the...

Prayer is the little implement
Through which men reach
Where presence - is denied...

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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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Cher: If you really...

Cher: If you really...

If you really want something, you can figure out how to make it happen.

Source: In...

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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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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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Katharine Hepburn: I don't care...

Katharine Hepburn: I don't care...

I don't care what is written about me as long as it isn't true.

Source: In An...

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Emily Dickinson: Let us go...

Emily Dickinson: Let us go...

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Source: Attributed last words; in A Certain World,...

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Emily Dickinson: I felt it...

Emily Dickinson: I felt it...

I felt it shelter to speak to you.

Source: Letter, 1878; in Letters of Emily...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: Where painting is...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Where painting is...

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is...

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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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George Eliot: Perhaps his might...

George Eliot: Perhaps his might...

Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate...

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George Eliot: It is easy...

George Eliot: It is easy...

It is easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.

Source: In Webster's...

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George Eliot: Every woman is...

George Eliot: Every woman is...

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

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