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Ada Louise Huxtable: The age of...

Ada Louise Huxtable: The age of...

The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now...

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Rosalyn Sussman Yalow: The excitement of...

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow: The excitement of...

The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not...

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Amelia Barr: The great difference...

Amelia Barr: The great difference...

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on...

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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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Nikki Giovanni: We love because...

Nikki Giovanni: We love because...

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Source: In Ebony Magazine,
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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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Shelagh Delaney: 'There aren't enough...

Shelagh Delaney: 'There aren't enough...

''There aren't enough secrets to go round anymore. Some spies are having to invent secrets in order to earn a...

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Emily Dickinson: A little madness...

Emily Dickinson: A little madness...

A little madness in the Spring
Is wholesome even for the King.


Source: 1875;...

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Sarah Bernhardt: We must live...

Sarah Bernhardt: We must live...

We must live for the few who know and appreciate us, who judge and absolve us, and for whom we have the same affection...

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Kirstie Alley: I've learned that...

Kirstie Alley: I've learned that...

I've learned that you'll never be disappointed if you always keep an eye on uncharted territory, where you'll be...

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Kim Cattrall: [Imagination] helps me...

Kim Cattrall: [Imagination] helps me...

[Imagination] helps me to become part of that journey that I'm going through in font of the camera, or in front of an...

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Georgia O'Keeffe: [Sun-bleached bones] were...

Georgia O'Keeffe: [Sun-bleached bones] were...

[Sun-bleached bones] were most wonderful against the blue -- that blue that will always be there as it is now after...

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Sydney Biddle Barrows: The more you...

Sydney Biddle Barrows: The more you...

The more you act like a lady, the more he'll act like a gentleman.

Source:...

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Faith Popcorn: Send me out...

Faith Popcorn: Send me out...

Send me out into another life. But get me back for supper.

Source: The Popcorn...

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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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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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Katherine Dunham: If you dance,...

Katherine Dunham: If you dance,...

If you dance, you dance because you have to. Every dancer hurts, you know.

Source:...

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Kathleen Turner: I know there...

Kathleen Turner: I know there...

I know there are nights when I have power, when I could put on something and walk in somewhere, and if there is a man...

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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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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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