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Barbara Ehrenreich: We who officially...

Barbara Ehrenreich: We who officially...

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the...

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Dorothy Parker: Every love is...

Dorothy Parker: Every love is...

Every love is the love before
In a duller dress.


Source: Death and Taxes.
--...

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Laura Ingalls Wilder: Once you begin...

Laura Ingalls Wilder: Once you begin...

Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful...

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Kate Chopin: And moreover, to...

Kate Chopin: And moreover, to...

And moreover, to succeed, the artist must possess the courageous soul . . . the brave soul. The soul that dares and...

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Grace Speare: When you think...

Grace Speare: When you think...

When you think something, you think in picture. You don't think a thought in words. You think a picture that expresses...

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Florence Griffith Joyner: I pray hard,...

Florence Griffith Joyner: I pray hard,...

I pray hard, work hard and leave the rest to God.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Ada Louise Huxtable: Every creative act...

Ada Louise Huxtable: Every creative act...

Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There is no such thing,...

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Anne Frank: And finally I...

Anne Frank: And finally I...

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on...

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Adelaide A Proctor: I know too...

Adelaide A Proctor: I know too...

I know too well the poison and the sting
Of things too sweet.


Source: Per Pacem...

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Gwendolyn Bennett: Brushes and paints...

Gwendolyn Bennett: Brushes and paints...

Brushes and paints are all I have
To speak the music in my soul . . .


Source:...

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Joanna Baillie: The bliss e'en...

Joanna Baillie: The bliss e'en...

The bliss e'en of a moment still is bliss.

Source: The Reacon, Act 1, Sc. 2,...

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Aphra Behn: All I ask,...

Aphra Behn: All I ask,...

All I ask, is the privilege for my masculine part the poet in me. . . . If I must not, because of my sex, have this...

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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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Tallulah Bankhead: Acting is a...

Tallulah Bankhead: Acting is a...

Acting is a form of confusion.

Source: Tallulah. 1952.
-- Tallulah Bankhead,...

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Claudette Colbert: I bet you...

Claudette Colbert: I bet you...

I bet you think an egg is something you casually order for breakfast when you can't think of anything else. Well, so...

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Bessie Smith: There's nineteen men...

Bessie Smith: There's nineteen men...

There's nineteen men livin' in my neighborhood,
Eighteen of them are fools
and the one ain't no doggone...

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Georgia O'Keeffe: Before I put...

Georgia O'Keeffe: Before I put...

Before I put a brush to canvas, I question, Is this mine? . . . Is it influenced by some idea which I have acquired...

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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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Emily Post: Manners are a...

Emily Post: Manners are a...

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no...

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Freda Adler: Major social movements....

Freda Adler: Major social movements....

Major social movements. . . eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have...

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