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Louise Nevelson: What we start...

Louise Nevelson: What we start...

What we start with is a conviction to fulfill our being. Horses, trees fulfill themselves. Why shouldn't...

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Mary Kay Ash: A mediocre idea...

Mary Kay Ash: A mediocre idea...

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no...

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Sylvia Porter: The average family...

Sylvia Porter: The average family...

The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the...

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Nadia Boulanger: The essential [conditions]...

Nadia Boulanger: The essential [conditions]...

The essential [conditions] of everything you do . . . must be choice, love, passion.

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Amy Vanderbilt: [I am] a...

Amy Vanderbilt: [I am] a...

[I am] a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what...

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Sarah Caldwell: Success is important...

Sarah Caldwell: Success is important...

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to...

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Marilyn Horne: Ninety percent of...

Marilyn Horne: Ninety percent of...

Ninety percent of what's wrong with singers today is that they don't breathe right.

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Alice Childress: I'm independent as...

Alice Childress: I'm independent as...

I'm independent as a hog on ice and a hog on ice is dead, cold, well-preserved and don't need a mother'grabbin,...

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Catherine the Great: I am one...

Catherine the Great: I am one...

I am one of the people who love the why of things.

Source: Letter, 20 Jan...

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Sarah Bernhardt: The truth, the...

Sarah Bernhardt: The truth, the...

The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily...

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Babe Didrikson Zaharias: Practice, which some...

Babe Didrikson Zaharias: Practice, which some...

Practice, which some regard as a chore, should be approached as just about the most pleasant recreation ever...

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Anne Hutchinson: What from the...

Anne Hutchinson: What from the...

What from the Church at Boston? I know no such church, neither will I own it. Call it the whore and strumpet of...

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Charleszetta Waddles: You don't have...

Charleszetta Waddles: You don't have...

You don't have to look poor, you know, you don't have to look down. For money is a medium of exchange, and that's all;...

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Elizabeth Fry: I wish the...

Elizabeth Fry: I wish the...

I wish the state of enthusiasm I am now in may last, for today I FELT there is a God. I have been devotional and my...

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Sonia Johnson: As we do...

Sonia Johnson: As we do...

As we do at such times, I turned on my automatic pilot and went through the motions of normalcy on the outside, so...

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Starhawk: Creations, whether they...

Starhawk: Creations, whether they...

Creations, whether they are children, poems, or organizations, take on a life of their...

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Virginia Woolf: One likes people...

Virginia Woolf: One likes people...

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they...

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Ann Landers: Nobody ever drowned...

Ann Landers: Nobody ever drowned...

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase,...

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Anne Hutchinson: I thinke the...

Anne Hutchinson: I thinke the...

I thinke the soule to be nothing but Light.

Source: Spoken at her trial in Boston,...

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Peace Pilgrim: Make food a...

Peace Pilgrim: Make food a...

Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly...

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