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Susanna Moodie: Ah, Hope! what...

Susanna Moodie: Ah, Hope! what...

Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of...

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Rachel Carson: Beginnings are apt...

Rachel Carson: Beginnings are apt...

Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the...

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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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Nadia Boulanger: Everything we know...

Nadia Boulanger: Everything we know...

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves,...

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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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Marilyn Monroe: A career is...

Marilyn Monroe: A career is...

A career is born in public -- talent in privacy.

Source: Marilyn: The Woman Who...

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Madonna: To me, the...

Madonna: To me, the...

To me, the whole process of being a brushstroke in someone else's painting is a little...

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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: It looks like...

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: It looks like...

It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.

Source: Contemplating her...

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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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Lana Turner: A successful man...

Lana Turner: A successful man...

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a...

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Geraldine Chaplin: Drugs are marvelous...

Geraldine Chaplin: Drugs are marvelous...

Drugs are marvelous if you want to escape, but reality is so rich, why escape?

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Anne Bradstreet: A prosperous state...

Anne Bradstreet: A prosperous state...

A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.

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Elizabeth Montagu: Minds ripen at...

Elizabeth Montagu: Minds ripen at...

Minds ripen at very different ages.

Source: Letter to Mrs. William Robinson, her...

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Hannah Arendt: Action without a...

Hannah Arendt: Action without a...

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Source: The Human...

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Hannah Arendt: Economic growth may...

Hannah Arendt: Economic growth may...

Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into...

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Grace Murray Hopper: From then on,...

Grace Murray Hopper: From then on,...

From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.

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Abigail Adams: A little of...

Abigail Adams: A little of...

A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the...

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Eleanor Roosevelt: I think, at...

Eleanor Roosevelt: I think, at...

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift...

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Joyce Brothers: I don't give...

Joyce Brothers: I don't give...

I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say this is what we know about this problem at this...

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Mary Catherine Bateson: The family is...

Mary Catherine Bateson: The family is...

The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new...

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