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Paula Nelson: Going into business...

Paula Nelson: Going into business...

Going into business for yourself, becoming an entrepreneur, is the modern-day equivalent of pioneering on the old...

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Charlotte Forten Grimke: I wonder that...

Charlotte Forten Grimke: I wonder that...

I wonder that every colored person is not a misanthrope. Surely we have everything to make us hate...

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Eleanor Robson Belmont: An actor rides...

Eleanor Robson Belmont: An actor rides...

An actor rides in a bus or railroad train; he sees a movement and applies it to a new role. The whole garment in which...

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Sonia Johnson: As we do...

Sonia Johnson: As we do...

As we do at such times, I turned on my automatic pilot and went through the motions of normalcy on the outside, so...

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Geraldine Chaplin: If you make...

Geraldine Chaplin: If you make...

If you make films, you're changing rhythm the whole time. You go from a quiet life to an absolutely turbulent life...

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Mary Astor: A painter paints,...

Mary Astor: A painter paints,...

A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.

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Katherine Mansfield: The pleasure of...

Katherine Mansfield: The pleasure of...

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same...

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Katherine Mansfield: Risk! Risk anything!...

Katherine Mansfield: Risk! Risk anything!...

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you....

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Maria Montessori: The task of...

Maria Montessori: The task of...

The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with...

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Marguerite Yourcenar: If I make...

Marguerite Yourcenar: If I make...

If I make it, I will carry a pencil instead of the ritual sword.

Source: On her...

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Shelagh Delaney: Women never have...

Shelagh Delaney: Women never have...

Women never have young minds. They were born three thousand years old.

Source: A...

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Ingrid Bergman: Happiness is good...

Ingrid Bergman: Happiness is good...

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

Source: In An Uncommon Scold, by Abby...

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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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Mary Roberts Rinehart: Men deceive themselves;...

Mary Roberts Rinehart: Men deceive themselves;...

Men deceive themselves; they look back on the children who were once themselves, and attempt to reconstruct them. But...

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Colette: Look for a...

Colette: Look for a...

Look for a long time at what pleases you, and for a longer time at what pains you.

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Erica Jong: Jealousy is all...

Erica Jong: Jealousy is all...

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

Source: Fear of Flying, 1973
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Elizabeth Kenny: It is better...

Elizabeth Kenny: It is better...

It is better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

Source: Sister...

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Joan Crawford: Love is fire....

Joan Crawford: Love is fire....

Love is fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never...

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Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: Taught from infancy...

Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: Taught from infancy...

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt...

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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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