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Gail Pursell Elliott: When we bend...

Gail Pursell Elliott: When we bend...

When we bend and stretch, reach for the stars, we may find that the stars we are reaching for exist within us, waiting...

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Margaret Walker: When I was...

Margaret Walker: When I was...

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a...

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Colette: Sit down and...

Colette: Sit down and...

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can...

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Jessamyn West: It is easy...

Jessamyn West: It is easy...

It is easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit to forgive them for having witnessed your...

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Ariel Durant: One of the...

Ariel Durant: One of the...

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to...

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Margot Asquith: The capacity to...

Margot Asquith: The capacity to...

The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.

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Jessamyn West: Nothing is so...

Jessamyn West: Nothing is so...

Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.

Source: The Life I Really Lived,...

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Edna Ferber: Big doesn't necessarily...

Edna Ferber: Big doesn't necessarily...

Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.

Source:...

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Nadine Gordimer: The creative act...

Nadine Gordimer: The creative act...

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read...

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Ruth Westheimer: Our way is...

Ruth Westheimer: Our way is...

Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, toward the...

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Gayl Jones: You change the...

Gayl Jones: You change the...

You change the rhythm of the talk and respoonse and you change the rhythm between the talk and the...

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Carol Burnett: I have always...

Carol Burnett: I have always...

I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really...

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Emily Carr: You come into...

Emily Carr: You come into...

You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone, yet it seems to me you are more alone while living...

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Lynda Barry: You know...

Lynda Barry: You know...

You know that great car-stomach feeling when you fly over a hump? That was my whole...

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Edith Head: The subjective actress...

Edith Head: The subjective actress...

The subjective actress thinks of clothes only as they apply to her; the objective actress thinks of them only as they...

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Louise Nevelson: What we start...

Louise Nevelson: What we start...

What we start with is a conviction to fulfill our being. Horses, trees fulfill themselves. Why shouldn't...

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Mary Kay Ash: Criticize the act,...

Mary Kay Ash: Criticize the act,...

Criticize the act, not the person.

Source:
-- Mary Kay Ash, (May 12 1915-2001),...

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Polly Adler: My home is...

Polly Adler: My home is...

My home is in whatever town I'm booked.

Source: A House Is Not a Home, 1953.
--...

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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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Kathy Ireland: My family gave...

Kathy Ireland: My family gave...

My family gave me values that have sustained me through situations that would challenge any person. My personal...

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