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Claudette Colbert: You have no...

Claudette Colbert: You have no...

You have no idea what a long-legged gal can do without doing anything.

Source:...

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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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Lorraine Hansberry: One cannot live...

Lorraine Hansberry: One cannot live...

One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which affect the...

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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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Gwendolyn Brooks: Poetry is life...

Gwendolyn Brooks: Poetry is life...

Poetry is life distilled.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection,...

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Georgia O'Keeffe: I don't much...

Georgia O'Keeffe: I don't much...

I don't much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them...

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Sarah Caldwell: Success is important...

Sarah Caldwell: Success is important...

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to...

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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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Leontyne Price: Accomplishments have no...

Leontyne Price: Accomplishments have no...

Accomplishments have no color.

Source: In I Dream a World.
-- Leontyne Price,...

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Beverly Sills: Art is the...

Beverly Sills: Art is the...

Art is the signature of civilization.

Source: Interview - 1985.
-- Beverly...

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Rebecca West: I wonder if...

Rebecca West: I wonder if...

I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we...

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Duration is not...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Duration is not...

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Source: Gift From the Sea,...

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Peace Pilgrim: I pray without...

Peace Pilgrim: I pray without...

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can...

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Peace Pilgrim: My appointed work...

Peace Pilgrim: My appointed work...

My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within.

Source: In The...

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Betty Friedan: When she stopped...

Betty Friedan: When she stopped...

When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a...

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Mary Astell: If all men...

Mary Astell: If all men...

If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?

Source: In...

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Florence Nightingale: I attribute my...

Florence Nightingale: I attribute my...

I attribute my success to this -- I never gave or took any excuse.

Source: In The...

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Hannah Arendt: The ceaseless, senseless...

Hannah Arendt: The ceaseless, senseless...

The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible,...

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Margaret Walker: White folks needs...

Margaret Walker: White folks needs...

White folks needs what black folks got just as much as black folks needs what white folks got, and we's all got to...

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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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