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Lady Bird Johnson: Children are likely...

Lady Bird Johnson: Children are likely...

Children are likely to live up to what you believe in them.

Source: In Words of...

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Ruth Gordon: The best impromptu...

Ruth Gordon: The best impromptu...

The best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.

Source: In Words...

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Anouk Aimee: What helps me...

Anouk Aimee: What helps me...

What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive, I feel that anything can happen.

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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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Phyllis Diller: Burt Reynolds once...

Phyllis Diller: Burt Reynolds once...

Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Barbara Ward: [The Western Colonial...

Barbara Ward: [The Western Colonial...

[The Western Colonial system] shook all the societies in the world loose from their old moorings. But it seems...

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Amy Vanderbilt: Ceremony is-really a...

Amy Vanderbilt: Ceremony is-really a...

Ceremony is-really a protection, too, in times of emotional involvement, particularly at death. If we have a social...

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Louise A Bogan: The intellectual is...

Louise A Bogan: The intellectual is...

The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in...

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Lynn Fontanne: I lied to...

Lynn Fontanne: I lied to...

I lied to everybody. I lie very well, being an actress, naturally.

Source: On...

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Minnie Maddern Fiske: You must not...

Minnie Maddern Fiske: You must not...

You must not allow yourself to be advised, cautioned, influenced, persuaded

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Kathleen Turner: There's something so...

Kathleen Turner: There's something so...

There's something so muffled about the way you experience things. It's as if you were trying to slip through life...

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Elizabeth Montagu: . . ....

Elizabeth Montagu: . . ....

. . . there is a much higher character from that of a wit or a poet or a savant, which is that of a rational sociable...

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Hannah Arendt: It is quite...

Hannah Arendt: It is quite...

It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and...

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Christa McAuliffe: I cannot join...

Christa McAuliffe: I cannot join...

I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as...

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Christa McAuliffe: I have a...

Christa McAuliffe: I have a...

I have a box of papers at home of [my own press coverage]. When I'm sixty, maybe, I'll look at my pile of papers and...

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Edith Hamilton: To be able...

Edith Hamilton: To be able...

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is being educated.

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Joyce Brothers: Being taken for...

Joyce Brothers: Being taken for...

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted person in another...

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Johnnetta Betsch Cole: These young women...

Johnnetta Betsch Cole: These young women...

These young women have had four years of very special space . . . . safe space. But when they graduate, they will...

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bell hooks: Secrets find a...

bell hooks: Secrets find a...

Secrets find a way out in sleep . . . It is the place where there is no pretense.

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Anna Julia Cooper: Teach [our girls]...

Anna Julia Cooper: Teach [our girls]...

Teach [our girls] that there is a race with special needs which they and only they can help; that the world needs and...

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