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Jane Austen: Where so many...

Jane Austen: Where so many...

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be...

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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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Rita Mae Brown: The statistics on...

Rita Mae Brown: The statistics on...

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think...

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George Eliot: It was not...

George Eliot: It was not...

It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: Everyone confesses that...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Everyone confesses that...

Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most...

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Helen Rowland: In olden times...

Helen Rowland: In olden times...

In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar -- a practice which is still continued.

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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: 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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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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Andrea Dworkin: By the time...

Andrea Dworkin: By the time...

By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale...

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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

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Helen Keller: Smell is a...

Helen Keller: Smell is a...

Smell is a potent wizard that transports us across thousands of miles and all the years we have...

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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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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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Dorothy Parker: I was the...

Dorothy Parker: I was the...

I was the toast of two continents: Greenland and Australia.

Source: In Webster's...

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Dorothy Parker: It's like meeting...

Dorothy Parker: It's like meeting...

It's like meeting God without dying.

Source: Of Orson Welles.
-- Dorothy Parker,...

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Dorothy Parker: Women and elephants...

Dorothy Parker: Women and elephants...

Women and elephants never forget.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for Success,...

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Susan Sontag: Guns have metamorphosed...

Susan Sontag: Guns have metamorphosed...

Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what...

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Susan Sontag: In the final...

Susan Sontag: In the final...

In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized...

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