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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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Dorothy Parker: Somebody was using...

Dorothy Parker: Somebody was using...

Somebody was using the pencil.

Source: On why she missed a in New Yorker, deadline;...

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Susan B Anthony: Cautious, careful people,...

Susan B Anthony: Cautious, careful people,...

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations . . . can never effect a...

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Fran Lebowitz: If you are...

Fran Lebowitz: If you are...

If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget...

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Erma Bombeck: There is a...

Erma Bombeck: There is a...

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. And how do you know...

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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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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: It's a pleasure...

Susan Sontag: It's a pleasure...

It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the...

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Susan Sontag: Though collecting quotations...

Susan Sontag: Though collecting quotations...

Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were. ....

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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.

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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: 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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Helen Rowland: When a girl...

Helen Rowland: When a girl...

When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.

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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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Agnes George DeMille: The practice mirror...

Agnes George DeMille: The practice mirror...

The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should...

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Mae West: A man in...

Mae West: A man in...

A man in the house is worth two in the street.

Source: Belle of the Nineties, film...

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Tallulah Bankhead: There is less...

Tallulah Bankhead: There is less...

There is less in this than meets the eye.

Source: Shouts and Murmurs, (A....

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Shirley Temple Black: One has to...

Shirley Temple Black: One has to...

One has to handle these negative experiences alone. You can't get help from your friends or family. You're finally...

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Shirley Temple Black: Good luck needs...

Shirley Temple Black: Good luck needs...

Good luck needs no explanation.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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