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Alice Paul: I always feel...

Alice Paul: I always feel...

I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic. Each of us puts in one little stone, and then you get a great mosaic...

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Elsa Schiaparelli: Fashion is born...

Elsa Schiaparelli: Fashion is born...

Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by...

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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 right and left shoes were...

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Mary Kay Ash: People fail forward...

Mary Kay Ash: People fail forward...

People fail forward to success.

Source: On People Management, 1984.
-- Mary Kay...

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Helena Rubinstein: Whether you are...

Helena Rubinstein: Whether you are...

Whether you are sixteen or over sixty, remember, understatement is the rule of a fine makeup artist. Adjust your...

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Marian Anderson: Sometimes you're overwhelmed...

Marian Anderson: Sometimes you're overwhelmed...

Sometimes you're overwhelmed when a thing comes, and you do not realize the magnitude of the affair at that moment....

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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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Katharine Hepburn: I think most...

Katharine Hepburn: I think most...

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're...

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Tallulah Bankhead: I'll come and...

Tallulah Bankhead: I'll come and...

I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.

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Tallulah Bankhead: Cocaine habit-forming?...

Tallulah Bankhead: Cocaine habit-forming?...

Cocaine habit-forming? Of course not. I ought to know. I've been using it for years.

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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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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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Denise Levertov: The day's blow...

Denise Levertov: The day's blow...

The day's blow rang out, metallic -- or it was I, a bell awakened, and what I heard was my whole self saying and...

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Anne Bradstreet: And he...

Anne Bradstreet: And he...

And he that knowes the most, cloth still bemoan
He knows not all that here is to be...

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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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Grandma Moses: A primitive artist...

Grandma Moses: A primitive artist...

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

Source: In Webster's NewWorld...

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Kathy Ireland: . . ....

Kathy Ireland: . . ....

. . . I saw people willing to compromise themselves, or change themselves, to acquire what they thought was important....

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Marlo Thomas: A feminist is...

Marlo Thomas: A feminist is...

A feminist is a man or woman who already knows for a fact that men and women are qual and wants society to wake up to...

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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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Anne Baxter: I wasn't afraid...

Anne Baxter: I wasn't afraid...

I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.

Source: In The...

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