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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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Helen Keller: It gives me...

Helen Keller: It gives me...

It gives me a deep comforting sense that things seen are temporal and things unseen are...

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Dorothy Parker: Men seldom make...

Dorothy Parker: Men seldom make...

Men seldom make passes
At girls who wear glasses.


Source: News Item, Enough...

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Dorothy Parker: Where's the man...

Dorothy Parker: Where's the man...

Where's the man could ease a heart,
Like a satin gown?


Source: The Satin Dress,...

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Dorothy Parker: Just begin a...

Dorothy Parker: Just begin a...

Just begin a story with such a phrase as 'I remember Disraeli - poor old Dizz! - once saying to me, in answer to my...

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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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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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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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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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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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Emily Dickinson: The Soul unto...

Emily Dickinson: The Soul unto...

The Soul unto itself
Is an imperial friend --
Or the most agonizing Spy --
An Enemy --could send...

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Emily Dickinson: If I read...

Emily Dickinson: If I read...

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is...

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Emily Dickinson: We must be...

Emily Dickinson: We must be...

We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.

Source: Letter, 1874; in...

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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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Maya Angelou: The need for...

Maya Angelou: The need for...

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

Source: I Know Why...

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Susan Sontag: Although none of...

Susan Sontag: Although none of...

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating...

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Helen Rowland: The tenderest spot...

Helen Rowland: The tenderest spot...

The tenderest spot in a man's make-up is sometimes the bald spot on top of his head.

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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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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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