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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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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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Dorothy Parker: You can lead...

Dorothy Parker: You can lead...

You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.

Source: Speech to...

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Catherine Drinker Bowen: Many a man...

Catherine Drinker Bowen: Many a man...

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

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Susan Sontag: Sanity is a...

Susan Sontag: Sanity is a...

Sanity is a cozy lie.

Source:
-- Susan Sontag, (Jan 16 1933-2004), US author,...

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Rebecca Harding Davis: Be just --...

Rebecca Harding Davis: Be just --...

Be just -- not like man's law, which seizes on one isolated fact, but like God's judging angel, whose clear, sad eye...

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Emily Dickinson: Dreams are the...

Emily Dickinson: Dreams are the...

Dreams are the subtle Dower
That make us rich an Hour
Then fling us poor
Out of the purple...

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Lois McMaster Bujold: The will to...

Lois McMaster Bujold: The will to...

The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.

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George Eliot: To act with...

George Eliot: To act with...

To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved...

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George Eliot: Friendships begin with...

George Eliot: Friendships begin with...

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude roots that can be pulled up.

Source: In...

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George Eliot: Human beings must...

George Eliot: Human beings must...

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

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Jane Austen: She was nothing...

Jane Austen: She was nothing...

She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging young woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: One would like...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: One would like...

One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: These words dropped...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: These words dropped...

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think...

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Susan Sontag: Life is a...

Susan Sontag: Life is a...

Life is a movie. Death is a photograph.

Source:
-- Susan Sontag, (Jan 16...

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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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Andrea Dworkin: The fact that...

Andrea Dworkin: The fact that...

The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to...

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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: To be happy...

Helen Rowland: To be happy...

To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love...

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