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Diane Arbus: A photograph is...

Diane Arbus: A photograph is...

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.

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Jinger Heath: Your success depends...

Jinger Heath: Your success depends...

Your success depends on your ability to dream and follow through on those dreams.

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Elizabeth Arden: Dear, never forget...

Elizabeth Arden: Dear, never forget...

Dear, never forget one little point: It's my business. You just work here.

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Katharine Graham: To love what...

Katharine Graham: To love what...

To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?

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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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Beverly Sills: A happy woman...

Beverly Sills: A happy woman...

A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her...

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Betty Grable: I'm a song...

Betty Grable: I'm a song...

I'm a song and dance girl. I can act enough to get by. But that's the limit of my talents.

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Louise A Bogan: I cannot believe...

Louise A Bogan: I cannot believe...

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world...

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Anne Sexton: Put your ear...

Anne Sexton: Put your ear...

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

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Anne Bradstreet: Authority without wisdom...

Anne Bradstreet: Authority without wisdom...

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edg[e], fitter to bruise than...

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Emily Dickinson: Because I could...

Emily Dickinson: Because I could...

Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And...

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Fanny Crosby: This is my...

Fanny Crosby: This is my...

This is my story, this is my Song,
Praising my Savior, all the day long.


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Marianne Williamson: In every community,...

Marianne Williamson: In every community,...

In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the...

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St Teresa of Avila: I only wish...

St Teresa of Avila: I only wish...

I only wish I could write with both hands, so as not to forget one thing while I am saying...

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Naomi Weisstein: Why have they...

Naomi Weisstein: Why have they...

Why have they been telling us women lately that we have no sense of humor -- when we are always laughing? . . . and...

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Grace Murray Hopper: Some day, on...

Grace Murray Hopper: Some day, on...

Some day, on the corporate balance sheet, there will be an entry which reads, Information; for in most cases, the...

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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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Margaret Chase Smith: Greatness is not...

Margaret Chase Smith: Greatness is not...

Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means...

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Queen Victoria: We are not...

Queen Victoria: We are not...

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist.

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Nancy Astor: The main dangers...

Nancy Astor: The main dangers...

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything -- or nothing.

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