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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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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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Rosabeth Moss Kanter: Cheap labor is...

Rosabeth Moss Kanter: Cheap labor is...

Cheap labor is not going to be the way we compete in the United States. It's going to be brain...

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Elizabeth Arden: Treat a horse...

Elizabeth Arden: Treat a horse...

Treat a horse like a woman and a woman like a horse. And they'll both win for you.

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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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Sylvia Porter: I've always been...

Sylvia Porter: I've always been...

I've always been independent, and I don't see how it conflicts with femininity.

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Sydney Biddle Barrows: Never say anything...

Sydney Biddle Barrows: Never say anything...

Never say anything on the phone that you wouldn't want your mother to hear at your trial.

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Susan RoAne: They say, You...

Susan RoAne: They say, You...

They say, You can't give a smile away; it always comes back. The same is true of a kind word or a conversation...

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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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Nikki Giovanni: It is not...

Nikki Giovanni: It is not...

It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.

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Nikki Giovanni: Mistakes are a...

Nikki Giovanni: Mistakes are a...

Mistakes are a fact of life
It is the response to error that counts.


Source: Of...

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Zora Neale Hurston: Grab the broom...

Zora Neale Hurston: Grab the broom...

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Lorraine Hansberry: Seems like God...

Lorraine Hansberry: Seems like God...

Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams -- but He did give us children to make them...

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Anne Bradstreet: If we had...

Anne Bradstreet: If we had...

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant. If we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would...

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Anne Sexton: The beautiful feeling...

Anne Sexton: The beautiful feeling...

The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a...

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Anne Bradstreet: Authority without wisdom...

Anne Bradstreet: Authority without wisdom...

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edg[e], fitter to bruise than...

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Mae West: I believe in...

Mae West: I believe in...

I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.

Source: In An Uncommon Scold,...

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Helen Hayes: Only the poet...

Helen Hayes: Only the poet...

Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.

Source: In The...

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Thelma Ritter: If there's anything...

Thelma Ritter: If there's anything...

If there's anything worse than a woman living alone, it's a woman saying she likes it.

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Michelle Pfeiffer: You know, I...

Michelle Pfeiffer: You know, I...

You know, I look like a duck. I just do. And I'm not the only person who thinks that. It's the way my mouth sort of...

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