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Helen Keller: I can see,...

Helen Keller: I can see,...

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made...

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: If you let...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: If you let...

If you let yourself be absorbed completely, if you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more...

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Molly Haskell: There are very...

Molly Haskell: There are very...

There are very few heroines in literature who have defined their lives morally rather than romantically and likewise...

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Fran Lebowitz: Do not allow...

Fran Lebowitz: Do not allow...

Do not allow children to mix drinks. It is unseemly and they use too much vermouth.

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Susan Sontag: Fear of sexuality...

Susan Sontag: Fear of sexuality...

Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now...

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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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Susan Sontag: War-making is one...

Susan Sontag: War-making is one...

War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view realistically; that is, with an eye to...

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Oprah Winfrey: I am a...

Oprah Winfrey: I am a...

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and...

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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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Emily Dickinson: Luck is not...

Emily Dickinson: Luck is not...

Luck is not chance --
It's toil --
Fortune's expensive smile Is earned.


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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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Mae West: My advice to...

Mae West: My advice to...

My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you're boned, what's left to...

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Tallulah Bankhead: It's the good...

Tallulah Bankhead: It's the good...

It's the good girls who keep the diaries; the bad girls never have the time.

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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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Madeleine L'Engle: With each book...

Madeleine L'Engle: With each book...

With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that [the books] have a life of their own, quite apart from...

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Louisa May Alcott: I like to...

Louisa May Alcott: I like to...

I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever...

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Hannah Arendt: Wherever the relevance...

Hannah Arendt: Wherever the relevance...

Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a...

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Hannah Arendt: War has ....

Hannah Arendt: War has ....

War has . . . become a luxury which only the small nations can afford.

Source: In...

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Mary Wortley Montagu: Take back the...

Mary Wortley Montagu: Take back the...

Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me...

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