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Ellen Terry: Imagination, industry, and...

Ellen Terry: Imagination, industry, and...

Imagination, industry, and intelligence --the three I's --are all indispensable to the actress, but of these three the...

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Zsa Zsa Gabor: A man in...

Zsa Zsa Gabor: A man in...

A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.

Source: In...

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Tallulah Bankhead: I have been...

Tallulah Bankhead: I have been...

I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free...

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Lauren Bacall: The purity of...

Lauren Bacall: The purity of...

The purity of Jewish upbringing is the restrictions that one carries through life being a nice Jewish girl -- what a...

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Sydney Biddle Barrows: If you want...

Sydney Biddle Barrows: If you want...

If you want an expert on war, you get a retired general. I'm not exactly a general, but I am...

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Nellie Melba: My voice has...

Nellie Melba: My voice has...

My voice has been raised not only in song, but to make the big world outside through me, understand something of the...

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Wilma Pearl Mankiller: She likened her...

Wilma Pearl Mankiller: She likened her...

She likened her job to running a small country, a medium corporation, and being a social...

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: The beautiful seems...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: The beautiful seems...

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

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Adelaide A Proctor: No star is...

Adelaide A Proctor: No star is...

No star is ever lost we once have seen,
We always may be what we might have been.


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Nelly Sachs: O the chimneys...

Nelly Sachs: O the chimneys...

O the chimneys
On the ingeniously devised habitations of death
When Israel's body drifted as smoke
Through...

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Geraldine Chaplin: I didn't fall...

Geraldine Chaplin: I didn't fall...

I didn't fall in love with acting until I did a few films. Now, I couldn't live without...

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Nikki Giovanni: A white face...

Nikki Giovanni: A white face...

A white face goes with a white mind. Occasionally a black face goes with a white mind. Very seldom a white face will...

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Charlotte Bronte: Give him enough...

Charlotte Bronte: Give him enough...

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

Source: Shirley, 1849.
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: God's gifts put...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: God's gifts put...

God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.

Source: Sonnets From the Portuguese,...

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Peace Pilgrim: Most of us...

Peace Pilgrim: Most of us...

Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless,...

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Andrea Dworkin: Men who want...

Andrea Dworkin: Men who want...

Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically...

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Lucretia Mott: Let [woman] receive...

Lucretia Mott: Let [woman] receive...

Let [woman] receive encouragement for the proper cultivation of all her powers, so that she may enter profitably into...

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Sylvia Pankhurst: A wondrous city...

Sylvia Pankhurst: A wondrous city...

A wondrous city of fairest carving, reflected in gleaming waters swirled to new patterning by every passing...

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Rachel Carson: For the sense...

Rachel Carson: For the sense...

For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that we use it...

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Marie Curie: One never notices...

Marie Curie: One never notices...

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done . . .

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