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Annie Dillard: Appealing workplaces are...

Annie Dillard: Appealing workplaces are...

Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the...

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Katherine Mansfield: Tidied all my...

Katherine Mansfield: Tidied all my...

Tidied all my papers. Tore up and ruthlessly destroyed much. This is always a great...

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Katherine Mansfield: Risk! Risk anything!...

Katherine Mansfield: Risk! Risk anything!...

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you....

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Helene Deutsch: After all, the...

Helene Deutsch: After all, the...

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.

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Helene Deutsch: The embattled gates...

Helene Deutsch: The embattled gates...

The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself: That is not...

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Han Suyin: This is Malaya....

Han Suyin: This is Malaya....

This is Malaya. Everything takes a long, a very long time, in Malaya. Things get done, occasionally, but more often...

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Catharine Esther Beecher: Woman's great mission...

Catharine Esther Beecher: Woman's great mission...

Woman's great mission is to train immature weak, and ignorant creatures to obey the laws of God; the physical, the...

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Margot Asquith: His modesty amounts...

Margot Asquith: His modesty amounts...

His modesty amounts to deformity.

Source: Referring to her husband. As I...

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Margot Asquith: There are big...

Margot Asquith: There are big...

There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult...

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Vicki Baum: Fame always brings...

Vicki Baum: Fame always brings...

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

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Eleanor Roosevelt: I used to...

Eleanor Roosevelt: I used to...

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me understand something, it would be clear to all the other people in...

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Elizabeth Dole: Women share with...

Elizabeth Dole: Women share with...

Women share with men the need for personal success, even the taste of power, and no longer are we willing to satisfy...

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Queen Victoria: I don't dislike...

Queen Victoria: I don't dislike...

I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.

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Marie Antoinette: There is nothing...

Marie Antoinette: There is nothing...

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Elizabeth II: To what greater...

Elizabeth II: To what greater...

To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house,...

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Nancy Astor: One reason why...

Nancy Astor: One reason why...

One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I'm having a good time.

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Helen Hayes: Only the poet...

Helen Hayes: Only the poet...

Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.

Source: In The...

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Ruth Draper: Try to look...

Ruth Draper: Try to look...

Try to look at everything through the eyes of a child.

Source: In Discerning God's...

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Maria Schell: Peace is when...

Maria Schell: Peace is when...

Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.

Source: In Time 3 Mar...

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Anne Baxter: I wasn't afraid...

Anne Baxter: I wasn't afraid...

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Source: In The...

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