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Fran Lebowitz: Stand firm in...

Fran Lebowitz: Stand firm in...

Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as...

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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: It goes without...

Erma Bombeck: It goes without...

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

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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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Simone de Beauvoir: To catch a...

Simone de Beauvoir: To catch a...

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Susan Sontag: Industrial societies turn...

Susan Sontag: Industrial societies turn...

Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution....

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Susan Sontag: The love of...

Susan Sontag: The love of...

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and...

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George Eliot: I tell you...

George Eliot: I tell you...

I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman,...

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George Eliot: Gossip is a...

George Eliot: Gossip is a...

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the...

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George Eliot: I'm not denyin'...

George Eliot: I'm not denyin'...

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish; God Almighty made 'em to match men.

Source:...

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George Eliot: Life is too...

George Eliot: Life is too...

Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly...

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George Eliot: Renunciation remains sorrow,...

George Eliot: Renunciation remains sorrow,...

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

Source: The Mill on...

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Helen Hunt Jackson: Who waits until...

Helen Hunt Jackson: Who waits until...

Who waits until the wind shall silent keep.
Will never find the ready hour to sow.


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Rita Mae Brown: You sell a...

Rita Mae Brown: You sell a...

You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.

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Shirley Temple Black: I was very...

Shirley Temple Black: I was very...

I was very sophisticated when I was 17. When I was 14, I was the oldest I ever was . . . I've been getting younger...

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Emily Dickinson: The Truth must...

Emily Dickinson: The Truth must...

The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind.


Source: 1868; The Poems...

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Emily Dickinson: Let us go...

Emily Dickinson: Let us go...

Let us go in; the fog is rising.

Source: Attributed last words; in A Certain World,...

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Emily Dickinson: His mind of...

Emily Dickinson: His mind of...

His mind of man, a secret makes
I meet him with a start
He carries a circumference
In which I have no...

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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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Maya Angelou: My great hope...

Maya Angelou: My great hope...

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to...

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