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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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Helena Petrova Blavatsky: The more thou...

Helena Petrova Blavatsky: The more thou...

The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet.

Source: In Wisdom...

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Diane Sawyer: People tend to...

Diane Sawyer: People tend to...

People tend to vote the present tense -- not the subjective.

Source: On CBS-TV, 8...

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Florence King: I'm for prayer...

Florence King: I'm for prayer...

I'm for prayer in the schools because ritual and ceremony are calming and civilizing, and the little fartlings should...

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Erma Bombeck: Dreams have only...

Erma Bombeck: Dreams have only...

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.

Source: In...

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Joyce A Myers: Education levels the...

Joyce A Myers: Education levels the...

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

Source: In The...

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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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Helena Rubinstein: There are no...

Helena Rubinstein: There are no...

There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.

Source: My Life for Beauty, pt. II, ch....

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Est?e Lauder: If you don't...

Est?e Lauder: If you don't...

If you don't sell, it's not the product that's wrong, it's you.

Source: To...

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Beatrice Potter Webb: Religion is love;...

Beatrice Potter Webb: Religion is love;...

Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

Source: My Apprenticeship, Ch. 2,...

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Isadora Duncan: Virtuous people are...

Isadora Duncan: Virtuous people are...

Virtuous people are simply those who have. . . not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state,...

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Lucille Ball: Luck? I don't...

Lucille Ball: Luck? I don't...

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is...

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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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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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Gwendolyn Bennett: Some things are...

Gwendolyn Bennett: Some things are...

Some things are very dear to me --
Such things as flowers bathed by rain
Or patterns traced upon the...

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Elizabeth Coatsworth: The sunset caught...

Elizabeth Coatsworth: The sunset caught...

The sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper,
set the clouds
to one great roof of flame
above the...

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Charlotte Bronte: I am always...

Charlotte Bronte: I am always...

I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.

Source: Shirley, 1849.
--...

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Stevie Smith: Nobody heard him,...

Stevie Smith: Nobody heard him,...

Nobody heard him, the dead man,
But still he lay moaning:
I was much further out than you thought
And not...

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Eliza Cook: Whom do we...

Eliza Cook: Whom do we...

Whom do we dub as Gentleman?
The Knave, the fool, the brute --
If they but own full tithe of gold,
and Wear a...

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Nikki Giovanni: If you don't...

Nikki Giovanni: If you don't...

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

Source: A...

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