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Susan B Anthony: I distrust those...

Susan B Anthony: I distrust those...

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their...

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Susan Sontag: Perversity is the...

Susan Sontag: Perversity is the...

Perversity is the muse of modern literature.

Source: Against Interpretation,...

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Susan Sontag: The whole point...

Susan Sontag: The whole point...

The whole point of Camp is to dethrone the serious. Camp is playful, anti-serious. More precisely, Camp involves a...

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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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Rita Mae Brown: Recognition of function...

Rita Mae Brown: Recognition of function...

Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.

Source: Starting from...

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Rita Mae Brown: I believe you...

Rita Mae Brown: I believe you...

I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten...

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George Eliot: Speech is often...

George Eliot: Speech is often...

Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you...

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George Eliot: A patronizing disposition...

George Eliot: A patronizing disposition...

A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.

Source: Adam Bede.
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Gertrude Stein: It is inevitable...

Gertrude Stein: It is inevitable...

It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a...

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Agnes George DeMille: A good education...

Agnes George DeMille: A good education...

A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.

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Mary Wortley Montagu: Whoever will cultivate...

Mary Wortley Montagu: Whoever will cultivate...

Whoever will cultivate their own mind will find full employment. Every virtue does not only require great care in the...

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Helen Hunt Jackson: The mighty are...

Helen Hunt Jackson: The mighty are...

The mighty are brought low by many a thing
Too small to name. Beneath the daisy's disk
Lies hid the pebble for...

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George Eliot: When death comes...

George Eliot: When death comes...

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

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Madeleine L'Engle: I do not...

Madeleine L'Engle: I do not...

I do not think that I will ever reach a stage when I will say, This is what I believe. Finished. What I believe is...

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Susan Sontag: The painter constructs,...

Susan Sontag: The painter constructs,...

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

Source: On Photography, The...

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Susan Sontag: We live under...

Susan Sontag: We live under...

We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and...

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Fran Lebowitz: Vegetables are interesting...

Fran Lebowitz: Vegetables are interesting...

Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of...

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Dorothy Parker: Drink, and dance...

Dorothy Parker: Drink, and dance...

Drink, and dance and laugh and lie,
Love the reeling midnight through,
For tomorrow we shall die!
(But,...

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Minna Thomas Antrim: The Green-Eyed Monster...

Minna Thomas Antrim: The Green-Eyed Monster...

The Green-Eyed Monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose...

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Helen Keller: The marvelous richness...

Helen Keller: The marvelous richness...

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to...

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