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Beatrice Lillie: The vows one...

Beatrice Lillie: The vows one...

The vows one makes privately are more binding than any ceremony or even a Shubert...

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Alice Childress: Some feminists feel...

Alice Childress: Some feminists feel...

Some feminists feel that a woman should never be wrong. We have a right to be wrong.

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Catherine the Great: A great wind...

Catherine the Great: A great wind...

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.

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Barbara Bush: The winner of...

Barbara Bush: The winner of...

The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal...

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Rosalynn Carter: If you don't...

Rosalynn Carter: If you don't...

If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try -- you...

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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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Rita Dove: If you can't...

Rita Dove: If you can't...

If you can't be free, be a mystery.

Source: Canary, lines 1 - and last line,...

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Simone Signoret: I suspect there...

Simone Signoret: I suspect there...

I suspect there isn't an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family's questions after his first day's...

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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: A whisper can...

Louise Nevelson: A whisper can...

A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain.

Source:...

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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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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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Mary Kay Ash: So many women...

Mary Kay Ash: So many women...

So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the...

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Sylvia Porter: Money never remains...

Sylvia Porter: Money never remains...

Money never remains just coins and pieces of paper. Money can be translated into the beauty of living, a support in...

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Sylvia Porter: The average family...

Sylvia Porter: The average family...

The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the...

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Sydney Biddle Barrows: The more you...

Sydney Biddle Barrows: The more you...

The more you act like a lady, the more he'll act like a gentleman.

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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Katharine Graham: If one is...

Katharine Graham: If one is...

If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood.

Source: In The...

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Lotte Lehmann: The music is...

Lotte Lehmann: The music is...

The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world.

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