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Erma Bombeck: Next to hot...

Erma Bombeck: Next to hot...

Next to hot chicken soup, a tattoo of an anchor on your chest, and penicillin, I consider a honeymoon one of the most...

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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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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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Emily Dickinson: I measure every...

Emily Dickinson: I measure every...

I measure every Grief I meet
With narrow, probing Eyes --
I wonder if It weighs like Mine --
Or has an Easier...

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Beah Richards: Both class and...

Beah Richards: Both class and...

Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to...

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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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Rita Mae Brown: I believe in...

Rita Mae Brown: I believe in...

I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.

Source: Starting from...

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Rita Mae Brown: Lead me not...

Rita Mae Brown: Lead me not...

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.

Source: From a collection...

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George Eliot: Perhaps his might...

George Eliot: Perhaps his might...

Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate...

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George Eliot: No soul is...

George Eliot: No soul is...

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and...

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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: 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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Enid Bagnold: Who wants to...

Enid Bagnold: Who wants to...

Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. To Why am I here? To uselessness. It's...

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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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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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Tama Janowitz: I don't want...

Tama Janowitz: I don't want...

I don't want my novel to be like Madame Bovary, finely crafted with the life edited out of it. I want my novel to be...

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Helen Hunt Jackson: Now and then...

Helen Hunt Jackson: Now and then...

Now and then one sees a face which has kept its smile pure and undefiled. Such a smile transfigures; such a smile, if...

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Helen Hunt Jackson: Words are less...

Helen Hunt Jackson: Words are less...

Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.

Source: Ramona, 1884.
-- Helen...

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Mary Wortley Montagu: Life is too...

Mary Wortley Montagu: Life is too...

Life is too short for a long story.

Source: Letter, 19 Jul 1759; in Selected...

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George Eliot: Strange, that some...

George Eliot: Strange, that some...

Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the...

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