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Dorothy Parker: There was nothing...

Dorothy Parker: There was nothing...

There was nothing separate about her days,
Like drops upon a window-pane, they ran
together and trickled away. ....

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Rosalyn Sussman Yalow: The excitement of...

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow: The excitement of...

The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not...

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Louise A Bogan: [Your work] is...

Louise A Bogan: [Your work] is...

[Your work] is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.

Source: In...

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Abigail Adams: If particular care...

Abigail Adams: If particular care...

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold...

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Edith Head: A designer is...

Edith Head: A designer is...

A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.

Source: In Saturday...

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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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Margot Fonteyn: Great artists are...

Margot Fonteyn: Great artists are...

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in...

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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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Marita Bonner: The one real...

Marita Bonner: The one real...

The one real thing that money buys -- Time.

Source: On Being Young -- A Woman --...

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Margaret Walker: The Word of...

Margaret Walker: The Word of...

The Word of fire burns today
On the lips of our prophets in an evil age.


Source:...

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Grace Murray Hopper: If one ox...

Grace Murray Hopper: If one ox...

If one ox could not do the job they did not try to grow a bigger ox, but used two oxen. When we need greater computer...

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Eleanor Roosevelt: It takes as...

Eleanor Roosevelt: It takes as...

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Indira Gandhi: You must learn...

Indira Gandhi: You must learn...

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.

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Ruth Benedict: The trouble is...

Ruth Benedict: The trouble is...

The trouble is not that we are never happy -- it is that happiness is so episodical.

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Ivy Baker Priest: We women ought...

Ivy Baker Priest: We women ought...

We women ought to put first things first. Why should we mind if men have their faces on the money, as long as we get...

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Andrea Dworkin: All personal, psychological,...

Andrea Dworkin: All personal, psychological,...

All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source:...

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Ada Louise Huxtable: Every creative act...

Ada Louise Huxtable: Every creative act...

Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There is no such thing,...

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Gretel Ehrlich: Am I like...

Gretel Ehrlich: Am I like...

Am I like the optimist who, while falling ten stories from a building, says at each story, I'm all right so...

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Gwendolyn Brooks: Truth-tellers are not...

Gwendolyn Brooks: Truth-tellers are not...

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: God answers sharp...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: God answers sharp...

God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers,
And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face,
A gauntlet...

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