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Judith Jamison: I remember always...

Judith Jamison: I remember always...

I remember always the need to know myself, because if I avoid know ing who I am deep inside, then I can't express what...

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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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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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Madeleine L'Engle: We have much...

Madeleine L'Engle: We have much...

We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of...

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Louisa May Alcott: Good books, like...

Louisa May Alcott: Good books, like...

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

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George Eliot: There is hardly...

George Eliot: There is hardly...

There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs,...

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George Eliot: But most of...

George Eliot: But most of...

But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing...

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Jane Austen: I am afraid...

Jane Austen: I am afraid...

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

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Jane Austen: Single women have...

Jane Austen: Single women have...

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of...

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Jane Austen: There is safety...

Jane Austen: There is safety...

There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.

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Rita Mae Brown: Education is a...

Rita Mae Brown: Education is a...

Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.

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Helen Rowland: A wise woman...

Helen Rowland: A wise woman...

A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he...

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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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Dorothy Parker: Art is a...

Dorothy Parker: Art is a...

Art is a form of catharsis.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith...

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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: In most modern...

Susan Sontag: In most modern...

In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art...

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Susan Sontag: One set of...

Susan Sontag: One set of...

One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse...

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Susan Sontag: Using a camera...

Susan Sontag: Using a camera...

Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and...

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Eliza Wood Burhans Farnham: The ultimate aim...

Eliza Wood Burhans Farnham: The ultimate aim...

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with...

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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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