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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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Beatrice Potter Webb: If I ever...

Beatrice Potter Webb: If I ever...

If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room full of people, I would say to myself, 'You're the...

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Beverly Sills: Art is the...

Beverly Sills: Art is the...

Art is the signature of civilization.

Source: Interview - 1985.
-- Beverly...

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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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Ann (and Jane) Taylor: One ugly trick...

Ann (and Jane) Taylor: One ugly trick...

One ugly trick has often spoiled
The sweetest and the best;
Matilda, though a pleasant child,
One ugly trick...

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Zora Neale Hurston: People can be...

Zora Neale Hurston: People can be...

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for...

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Emily Dickinson: The brain is...

Emily Dickinson: The brain is...

The brain is wider than the sky;
For put them side by side
The one the other will contain with ease -
And you...

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Gwendolyn Brooks: Art is refining...

Gwendolyn Brooks: Art is refining...

Art is refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.

Source: In...

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Marilyn Monroe: My work is...

Marilyn Monroe: My work is...

My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation --but...

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Ingrid Bergman: Old age is...

Ingrid Bergman: Old age is...

Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless...

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Men get opinions...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Men get opinions...

Men get opinions as boys learn to spell,
By reiteration chiefly.


Source: Aurora...

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Joanna Baillie: I have seen...

Joanna Baillie: I have seen...

I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is...

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Eleanor Robson Belmont: In retrospect, the...

Eleanor Robson Belmont: In retrospect, the...

In retrospect, the past seems not one existence with a continuous flow of years and events that follow each other in...

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Pearl Bailey: When you're young,...

Pearl Bailey: When you're young,...

When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements.

Source: The...

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Madonna: To me, the...

Madonna: To me, the...

To me, the whole process of being a brushstroke in someone else's painting is a little...

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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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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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Mary Astell: Women are from...

Mary Astell: Women are from...

Women are from their very Infancy debarr'd those advantages [of education] with the want of which they are afterwards...

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Barbara Deming: We learn best...

Barbara Deming: We learn best...

We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women -- whose stories, for...

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Barbara Deming: Think first of...

Barbara Deming: Think first of...

Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's...

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