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Hannah Cowley: It requires genius...

Hannah Cowley: It requires genius...

It requires genius to make a good pun -- some men of bright parts can't reach it.

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Jacqueline Bisset: You need to...

Jacqueline Bisset: You need to...

You need to become a good listener. VERY VERY important. As you're working, you hear someone else's lines and how you...

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Mae West: It's hard to...

Mae West: It's hard to...

It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Mae...

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Joan Rivers: I succeeded by...

Joan Rivers: I succeeded by...

I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.

Source: In An Uncommon Scold,...

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Lena Horne: Don't be afraid...

Lena Horne: Don't be afraid...

Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just...

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Doris Day: Wrinkles are hereditary....

Doris Day: Wrinkles are hereditary....

Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.

Source: In A...

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Catherine the Great: I shall be...

Catherine the Great: I shall be...

I shall be an autocrat, that's my trade; and that good Lord will forgive me, that's his.

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Bernice Fitz-Gibbon: Creativeness often consists...

Bernice Fitz-Gibbon: Creativeness often consists...

Creativeness often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that the right and left shoes...

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Mary Kay Ash: Most people live...

Mary Kay Ash: Most people live...

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

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Sylvia Porter: Beware of the...

Sylvia Porter: Beware of the...

Beware of the danger signals that flag problems: silence, secretiveness, or sudden...

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Beatrice Potter Webb: If I ever...

Beatrice Potter Webb: If I ever...

If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room full of people, I would say to myself, 'You're the...

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Nellie Melba: The first rule...

Nellie Melba: The first rule...

The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself.

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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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Amelia Barr: The great difference...

Amelia Barr: The great difference...

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on...

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Beryl Markham: In Africa people...

Beryl Markham: In Africa people...

In Africa people learn to serve each other. They live on credit balances of little favors that they give and may, one...

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Angelina Grimke: I have not...

Angelina Grimke: I have not...

I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we...

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Coretta Scott King: If American women...

Coretta Scott King: If American women...

If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget...

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Dorothy Day: We have all...

Dorothy Day: We have all...

We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with...

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Virginia Woolf: It is in...

Virginia Woolf: It is in...

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

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Mary Astell: Women are from...

Mary Astell: Women are from...

Women are from their very Infancy debarr'd those advantages [of education] with the want of which they are afterwards...

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