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Elizabeth I: Brass shines as...

Elizabeth I: Brass shines as...

Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.

Source: Letter,...

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Ninon de Lenclos: The resistance of...

Ninon de Lenclos: The resistance of...

The resistance of a woman is not always proof of her virtue but more frequently of her...

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M F K Fisher: For anyone addicted...

M F K Fisher: For anyone addicted...

For anyone addicted to reading commonplace books . . . finding a good new one is much like enduring a familiar...

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Beatrice Hinkle: Fundamentally the male...

Beatrice Hinkle: Fundamentally the male...

Fundamentally the male artist approximates more to the psychology of woman, who, biologically speaking, is a purely...

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Mary Ritter Beard: While it is...

Mary Ritter Beard: While it is...

While it is generally agreed that the visible expressions and agencies are necessary instruments, civilization seems...

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Shelagh Delaney: Women never have...

Shelagh Delaney: Women never have...

Women never have young minds. They were born three thousand years old.

Source: A...

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Earth's crammed with...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Earth's crammed with...

Earth's crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God;
But only he who sees, takes off his shoes...

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Georgia O'Keeffe: I hate flowers...

Georgia O'Keeffe: I hate flowers...

I hate flowers -- I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.

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Anita Roddick: There is no...

Anita Roddick: There is no...

There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do...

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Leontyne Price: Accomplishments have no...

Leontyne Price: Accomplishments have no...

Accomplishments have no color.

Source: In I Dream a World.
-- Leontyne Price,...

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Yoko Ono: I believe in...

Yoko Ono: I believe in...

I believe in people so much that if the whole of civilization is burned so we don't have any memory of it, even then...

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Wilma Pearl Mankiller: I want to...

Wilma Pearl Mankiller: I want to...

I want to be remembered as the person who helped us restore faith in ourselves.

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Catherine the Great: Your wits make...

Catherine the Great: Your wits make...

Your wits make others witty.

Source: Letter to Voltaire, In The Complete Works of...

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Katharine Hepburn: If you survive...

Katharine Hepburn: If you survive...

If you survive long enough, you're revered - rather like an old building.

Source:...

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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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Ingrid Bergman: Happiness is good...

Ingrid Bergman: Happiness is good...

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

Source: In An Uncommon Scold, by Abby...

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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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Deborah Kerr: [Autobiographies] are all...

Deborah Kerr: [Autobiographies] are all...

[Autobiographies] are all the same -- it's always rags-to-riches or I-slept-with-so-and-so. Damned if I'm going to say...

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Shirley Booth: Life's never quite...

Shirley Booth: Life's never quite...

Life's never quite interesting enough, somehow. You people who come to the movies know that. [in The...

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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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