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Nikki Giovanni: Mistakes are a...

Nikki Giovanni: Mistakes are a...

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to error that counts.

Source: Of...

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Louise Erdrich: Here I am,...

Louise Erdrich: Here I am,...

Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, a place to love and be...

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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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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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Emily Dickinson: After great pain,...

Emily Dickinson: After great pain,...

After great pain, a formal feeling comes.
The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.


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Debbi Fields: You do not...

Debbi Fields: You do not...

You do not have to be superhuman to do what you believe in.

Source: In Words of...

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Mary Kay Ash: For every failure,...

Mary Kay Ash: For every failure,...

For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock,...

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Mae West: I used to...

Mae West: I used to...

I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Zsa Zsa Gabor: To a smart...

Zsa Zsa Gabor: To a smart...

To a smart girl men are no problem -- they're the answer.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Ruth Gordon: If you believe,...

Ruth Gordon: If you believe,...

If you believe, then you hang on. If you believe, it means you've got imagination, you don't need stuff thrown out on...

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Donna Reed: Bread that this...

Donna Reed: Bread that this...

Bread that this house may never know hunger, salt that life may always have flavor.

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Gwendolyn Bennett: Silence is a...

Gwendolyn Bennett: Silence is a...

Silence is a sounding thing
To one who listens hungrily.


Source: Your...

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Colette Dowling: Relationships are like...

Colette Dowling: Relationships are like...

Relationships are like a dance, with visible energy racing back and forth between partners. Some relationships are the...

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Kate Chopin: But the beginning...

Kate Chopin: But the beginning...

But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly...

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Susan Faludi: The demand that...

Susan Faludi: The demand that...

The demand that women return to femininity is a demand that the cultural gears shift into reverse, that we back up to...

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Peace Pilgrim: People see themselves...

Peace Pilgrim: People see themselves...

People see themselves as the center of the universe and judge everything as it relates to...

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Clare Boothe Luce: I don't have...

Clare Boothe Luce: I don't have...

I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define...

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Barbara Deming: Vengeance is not...

Barbara Deming: Vengeance is not...

Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most [people's] minds the thought of victory and the...

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Angela Davis: [H]uman beings cannot...

Angela Davis: [H]uman beings cannot...

[H]uman beings cannot be willed and molded into nonexistence.

Source: In Words of...

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Dinah Mulock Craik: It seems as...

Dinah Mulock Craik: It seems as...

It seems as if she had given these treasures and left him alone -- to use them, or lose them, apply them, or misapply...

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