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Dorothy Parker: Scratch an actor...

Dorothy Parker: Scratch an actor...

Scratch an actor and you'll find an actress.

Source: Attributed.
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Dorothy Parker: Money cannot buy...

Dorothy Parker: Money cannot buy...

Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.

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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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Susan Sontag: The freakish is...

Susan Sontag: The freakish is...

The freakish is no longer a private zone, difficult of access. People who are bizarre, in sexual disgrace, emotionally...

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Susan Sontag: What pornographic literature...

Susan Sontag: What pornographic literature...

What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a full human being and...

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Erma Bombeck: When my kids...

Erma Bombeck: When my kids...

When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb...

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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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Erma Bombeck: One thing they...

Erma Bombeck: One thing they...

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are...

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Erma Bombeck: You hear a...

Erma Bombeck: You hear a...

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big...

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Helen Keller: It gives me...

Helen Keller: It gives me...

It gives me a deep comforting sense that things seen are temporal and things unseen are...

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Dorothy Parker: . . ....

Dorothy Parker: . . ....

. . . as for helping me in the outside world, the Convent taught me only that if you spit on a pencil eraser, it will...

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Dorothy Parker: The doctors were...

Dorothy Parker: The doctors were...

The doctors were very brave about it.

Source: Said after she had been seriously...

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Helen Rowland: One man's folly...

Helen Rowland: One man's folly...

One man's folly is often another man's wife.

Source: Reflections of a Bachelor Girl...

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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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Helen Rowland: Why does a...

Helen Rowland: Why does a...

Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her --when, nine times out of...

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Susan Sontag: With the modern...

Susan Sontag: With the modern...

With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is...

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Susan B Anthony: Many abolitionists have...

Susan B Anthony: Many abolitionists have...

Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.

Source: Journal,...

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Katharine Hepburn: Why slap them...

Katharine Hepburn: Why slap them...

Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a...

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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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George Eliot: Certainly, the mistakes...

George Eliot: Certainly, the mistakes...

Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder...

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