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Edith Evans: I can't imagine...

Edith Evans: I can't imagine...

I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.

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Mae West: It's hard to...

Mae West: It's hard to...

It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Mae...

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Joan Baez: The easiest kind...

Joan Baez: The easiest kind...

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with...

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Louise Erdrich: For a short...

Louise Erdrich: For a short...

For a short while, our mothers bodies are the boundaries and personal geography which are all that we know of the...

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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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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: What is genius...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: What is genius...

What is genius -- but the power of expressing a new individuality?

Source: Letter,...

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Corita Kent: There are so...

Corita Kent: There are so...

There are so many hungry people that God cannot appear to them except in the form of...

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Louise Nevelson: What we call...

Louise Nevelson: What we call...

What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more...

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Jinger Heath: You are in...

Jinger Heath: You are in...

You are in the driver's seat of your life and can point your life down any road you want to travel. You can go as...

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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.

Source:...

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Faith Popcorn: The cliches of...

Faith Popcorn: The cliches of...

The cliches of a culture sometimes tell the deepest truths.

Source: The Popcorn...

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Beatrice Potter Webb: Religion is love;...

Beatrice Potter Webb: Religion is love;...

Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

Source: My Apprenticeship, Ch. 2,...

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Isadora Duncan: I had learned...

Isadora Duncan: I had learned...

I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same...

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Katherine Dunham: Go within every...

Katherine Dunham: Go within every...

Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle...

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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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Antoinette Brown Blackwell: The brain is...

Antoinette Brown Blackwell: The brain is...

The brain is not, and cannot be, the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling.

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Sojourner Truth: I am not...

Sojourner Truth: I am not...

I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.

Source: c. 1883, in...

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Virginia Woolf: We all indulge...

Virginia Woolf: We all indulge...

We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone...

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Andrea Dworkin: We as women...

Andrea Dworkin: We as women...

We as women know that there are no disembodied processes; that all history originates in human flesh; that all...

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Carry Nation: If you don't...

Carry Nation: If you don't...

If you don't do it, then the women of this state will do it . . . You refused me the vote and I had to use a...

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