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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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Bette Davis: People often become...

Bette Davis: People often become...

People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone...

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Tallulah Bankhead: I read Shakespeare...

Tallulah Bankhead: I read Shakespeare...

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal...

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Ava Gardner: I couldn't imagine...

Ava Gardner: I couldn't imagine...

I couldn't imagine a better place [Australia] for making a film on the end of the world.

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Minnie Maddern Fiske: Among the most...

Minnie Maddern Fiske: Among the most...

Among the most disheartening and dangerous of . . . advisors, you will often find those closest to you, your dearest...

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Vera-Ellen: I'm not exactly...

Vera-Ellen: I'm not exactly...

I'm not exactly repulsive.

Source: As Judy Haynes in White Christmas, 1954.
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Anouk Aimee: You can only...

Anouk Aimee: You can only...

You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.

Source: In The...

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Corazon Aquino: The nation was...

Corazon Aquino: The nation was...

The nation was awakened by that deafening shot.

Source: Dedicating a marker at...

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Barbara Mikulski: The two-martinis-for-lunch bunch...

Barbara Mikulski: The two-martinis-for-lunch bunch...

The two-martinis-for-lunch bunch would love for us to fight each other over the resources they have made...

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Annie Dillard: No; we have...

Annie Dillard: No; we have...

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is...

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Louisa May Alcott: Talent isn't genius...

Louisa May Alcott: Talent isn't genius...

Talent isn't genius and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace...

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Margaret Mitchell: I was never...

Margaret Mitchell: I was never...

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended...

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Helene Deutsch: All observations point...

Helene Deutsch: All observations point...

All observations point to the fact that the intellectual woman is masculinized; in her, warm, intuitive knowledge has...

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Marguerite Duras: You have to...

Marguerite Duras: You have to...

You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're...

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Hannah Arendt: To be sure,...

Hannah Arendt: To be sure,...

To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities. . . than a rigorously enforced divorce...

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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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Edith Hamilton: The fullness of...

Edith Hamilton: The fullness of...

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.

Source: The Great Age of Greek...

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Betty Smith: Look at everything...

Betty Smith: Look at everything...

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be...

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George Eliot: The intense happiness...

George Eliot: The intense happiness...

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and...

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Jane Austen: How can you...

Jane Austen: How can you...

How can you contrive to write so even?

Source: (Miss Bingley) Pride and Prejudice,...

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