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Sylvia Ashton-Warner: Love has the...

Sylvia Ashton-Warner: Love has the...

Love has the quality of informing almost everything -- even one's work.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton: Women are always...

Hillary Rodham Clinton: Women are always...

Women are always being tested . . . but ultimately, each of us has to define who we are individually and then do the...

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Corazon Aquino: Reconciliation should be...

Corazon Aquino: Reconciliation should be...

Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't...

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Edith Clara Summerskill: I learned that...

Edith Clara Summerskill: I learned that...

I learned that economics was not an exact science and that the most erudite men would analyze the economic ills of the...

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Christina of Sweden: Nuns and married...

Christina of Sweden: Nuns and married...

Nuns and married women are equally unhappy, if in different ways.

Source: Maxims,...

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Dorothy L Sayers: She always says,...

Dorothy L Sayers: She always says,...

She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run...

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Margot Asquith: The ingrained idea...

Margot Asquith: The ingrained idea...

The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is...

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Alice Duer Miller: If it's very...

Alice Duer Miller: If it's very...

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends -- you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest...

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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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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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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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Polly Adler: It's not the...

Polly Adler: It's not the...

It's not the college degree that makes a writer. The great thing is to have a story to...

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Susan RoAne: They say, You...

Susan RoAne: They say, You...

They say, You can't give a smile away; it always comes back. The same is true of a kind word or a conversation...

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Judith Jamison: I m moved...

Judith Jamison: I m moved...

I m moved by contraries, by opposites, the strength that was my mother's eyes, the beauty of my father's...

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Leontyne Price: Art is the...

Leontyne Price: Art is the...

Art is the only thing you cannot punch a button for. You must do it the old-fashioned way. Stay up and really burn the...

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Marilyn Horne: You have to...

Marilyn Horne: You have to...

You have to know exactly what you want out of your career. If you want to be a star, you don't bother with other...

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Ingrid Bergman: Happiness is good...

Ingrid Bergman: Happiness is good...

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

Source: In An Uncommon Scold, by Abby...

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Marie Dressler: Fate cast me...

Marie Dressler: Fate cast me...

Fate cast me to play the role of an ugly duckling with no promise of swanning. . . . I have played my life as a comedy...

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Didi Conn: In terms of...

Didi Conn: In terms of...

In terms of my store of emotional experiences it now as many more aisles than twenty years ago to pick...

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