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Dorothy Parker: Razors pain you<br>Rivers...

Dorothy Parker: Razors pain you
Rivers...

Razors pain you
Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you;
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful;
Nooses...

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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: 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: 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: It is, I...

George Eliot: It is, I...

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a...

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George Eliot: Jealousy is never...

George Eliot: Jealousy is never...

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the...

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Jane Austen: With men he...

Jane Austen: With men he...

With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature...

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Madeleine L'Engle: We can't take...

Madeleine L'Engle: We can't take...

We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.

Source:...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: No one is...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: No one is...

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.

Source: Uncle Tom's...

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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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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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Katharine Hepburn: We are taught...

Katharine Hepburn: We are taught...

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers -- but never blame...

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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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Susan Sontag: Existence is no...

Susan Sontag: Existence is no...

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and...

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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: 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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Susan B Anthony: I can see...

Susan B Anthony: I can see...

I can see that reap and deep, prayers and bears, . . . do rhyme, and so I suppose it is a splendid effort, but if you...

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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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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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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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