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Barbara Cartland: The right diet...

Barbara Cartland: The right diet...

The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.

Source: In...

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Daisy Ashford: Let us now...

Daisy Ashford: Let us now...

Let us now bask under the spreading trees said Bernard in a passionate tone. Oh yes lets said Ethel and she opened her...

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Rita Mae Brown: I am a...

Rita Mae Brown: I am a...

I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.

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Emily Dickinson: We never know...

Emily Dickinson: We never know...

We never know how high we are
Till we are called to rise.
And then, if we are true to plan,
Our statures...

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Emily Dickinson: Surgeons must be...

Emily Dickinson: Surgeons must be...

Surgeons must be very careful,
When they take the knife!,
Underneath their fine incisions,
Stirs the Culprit...

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Katharine Hepburn: Only the really...

Katharine Hepburn: Only the really...

Only the really plain people know about love the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they...

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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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Helen Rowland: When a man...

Helen Rowland: When a man...

When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the...

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Simone de Beauvoir: A man would...

Simone de Beauvoir: A man would...

A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human...

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Liz Carpenter: A major advantage...

Liz Carpenter: A major advantage...

A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.

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Helen Keller: Alone we can...

Helen Keller: Alone we can...

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Source: In Webster's...

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Dorothy Parker: It's not the...

Dorothy Parker: It's not the...

It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes.

Source: In Interview in...

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Fran Lebowitz: The telephone is...

Fran Lebowitz: The telephone is...

The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.

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Maya Angelou: My great hope...

Maya Angelou: My great hope...

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to...

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Susan Sontag: Tamed as it...

Susan Sontag: Tamed as it...

Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness -- pushing us at intervals...

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Susan Sontag: That even an...

Susan Sontag: That even an...

That even an apocalypse can be made to seem part of the ordinary horizon of expectation constitutes an unparalleled...

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Rita Mae Brown: Creativity comes from...

Rita Mae Brown: Creativity comes from...

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

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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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Gertrude Stein: Counting is the...

Gertrude Stein: Counting is the...

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: [I]f it were...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: [I]f it were...

[I]f it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were...

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