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Helen Hayes: Only the poet...

Helen Hayes: Only the poet...

Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.

Source: In The...

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Ruth Draper: Try to look...

Ruth Draper: Try to look...

Try to look at everything through the eyes of a child.

Source: In Discerning God's...

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Maria Schell: Peace is when...

Maria Schell: Peace is when...

Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.

Source: In Time 3 Mar...

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Mae West: It isn't what...

Mae West: It isn't what...

It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it. And how I look when I do it and say...

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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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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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Louise A Bogan: But childhood prolonged,...

Louise A Bogan: But childhood prolonged,...

But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.

Source:...

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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: We real cool....

Gwendolyn Brooks: We real cool....

We real cool. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin....

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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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Joan Baez: The easiest kind...

Joan Baez: The easiest kind...

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with...

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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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Adrienne Rich: There is the...

Adrienne Rich: There is the...

There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal...

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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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Margot Asquith: What a pity,...

Margot Asquith: What a pity,...

What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

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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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Margot Asquith: If Kitchener was...

Margot Asquith: If Kitchener was...

If Kitchener was not a great man, he was, at least, a great poster.

Source:...

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Eleanor Roosevelt: I used to...

Eleanor Roosevelt: I used to...

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me understand something, it would be clear to all the other people in...

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Elizabeth Dole: Women share with...

Elizabeth Dole: Women share with...

Women share with men the need for personal success, even the taste of power, and no longer are we willing to satisfy...

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