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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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George Eliot: But that intimacy...

George Eliot: But that intimacy...

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once...

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George Eliot: No story is...

George Eliot: No story is...

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same...

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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: Single women have...

Jane Austen: Single women have...

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of...

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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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Betty Carter: This is our...

Betty Carter: This is our...

This is our culture, and I don't care who the musician is, if he avoids black people, then he is scared of something....

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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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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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Oprah Winfrey: I don't think...

Oprah Winfrey: I don't think...

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early...

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Susan B Anthony: Modern invention has...

Susan B Anthony: Modern invention has...

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different...

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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: 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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Simone de Beauvoir: Live with no...

Simone de Beauvoir: Live with no...

Live with no time out.

Source: All Said and Done, 1974.
-- Simone de Beauvoir,...

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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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George Eliot: In all private...

George Eliot: In all private...

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

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George Eliot: Quarrel? Nonsense;...

George Eliot: Quarrel? Nonsense;...

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarrelled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being...

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George Eliot: There are men...

George Eliot: There are men...

There are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence.

Source: Romola,...

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Jane Austen: Happiness in marriage...

Jane Austen: Happiness in marriage...

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

Source: Pride & Prejudice/...

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Jane Austen: One has not...

Jane Austen: One has not...

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the...

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