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Bella Abzug: All of the...

Bella Abzug: All of the...

All of the men on my staff can type.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for...

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Colette: Sit down and...

Colette: Sit down and...

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can...

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Mary Frances Berry: When it comes...

Mary Frances Berry: When it comes...

When it comes to the cause of justice, I take no prisoners and I don't believe in...

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Marie Antoinette: Qu'ils mangent de...

Marie Antoinette: Qu'ils mangent de...

'Qu'ils mangent de la brioche.' Let them eat cake.

Source: Traditional but wrong...

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Christina of Sweden: Dignity is like...

Christina of Sweden: Dignity is like...

Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it.

Source:...

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Margaret Mead: Never doubt that...

Margaret Mead: Never doubt that...

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing...

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Marguerite Yourcenar: The memory of...

Marguerite Yourcenar: The memory of...

The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to...

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Dorothy Gilman: But she knew...

Dorothy Gilman: But she knew...

But she knew that she had encountered one of the more devastating kinds of loneliness in existence: that of being in...

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Vicki Baum: The deadliest feeling...

Vicki Baum: The deadliest feeling...

The deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman is pity.

Source: In The...

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Mae West: I used to...

Mae West: I used to...

I used to be snow white, but I drifted.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Lily Tomlin: For fast acting...

Lily Tomlin: For fast acting...

For fast acting relief, try slowing down.

Source: In Quote Disk 1,2,3, by DBUG,...

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Marlene Dietrich: I love quotations...

Marlene Dietrich: I love quotations...

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by...

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Barbra Streisand: What is exciting...

Barbra Streisand: What is exciting...

What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other . . . but for two people to have met their match...

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Rita Rudner: My mother buried...

Rita Rudner: My mother buried...

My mother buried three husbands . . . and two of them were only napping.

Source:...

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Lynda Barry: When an attractive...

Lynda Barry: When an attractive...

When an attractive but ALOOF (cool) man comes along, there are some of us who offer to shine his shoes with our...

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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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Lotte Lehmann: Do not become...

Lotte Lehmann: Do not become...

Do not become paralyzed and enchained by the set patterns which have been woven of old. No, build from your own...

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Christina Rossetti: Who has seen...

Christina Rossetti: Who has seen...

Who has seen the wind?
Neither you nor I:
But when the trees bow down their heads.
The wind is passing...

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Katharine Hepburn: If you always...

Katharine Hepburn: If you always...

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

Source: In The...

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Katharine Hepburn: If you survive...

Katharine Hepburn: If you survive...

If you survive long enough, you're revered - rather like an old building.

Source:...

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