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Karen Horney: There is no...

Karen Horney: There is no...

There is no good reason why we should not develop and change until the last day we live.

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Zora Neale Hurston: There is no...

Zora Neale Hurston: There is no...

There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.

Source: In Words of...

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Louise A Bogan: Because language is...

Louise A Bogan: Because language is...

Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a...

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Aphra Behn: Money speaks sense...

Aphra Behn: Money speaks sense...

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Source: The Rover,...

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Emily Dickinson: Nature is what...

Emily Dickinson: Nature is what...

Nature is what we know -
Yet have not art to say -
So impotent our wisdom is
To her...

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Christina Rossetti: I might show...

Christina Rossetti: I might show...

I might show facts as plain as day:
But since your eyes are blind, you'd say,
Where? What? and turn...

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Eliza Cook: Though language forms...

Eliza Cook: Though language forms...

Though language forms the preacher,
'Tis good works make the man.


Source: Good...

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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: When Harvard men...

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: When Harvard men...

When Harvard men say they've graduated from Radcliffe, then we've made it.

Source:...

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Gwendolyn Brooks: I am a...

Gwendolyn Brooks: I am a...

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.

Source: In My Soul Looks Back,...

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Mary Astor: Once you start...

Mary Astor: Once you start...

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

Source: A Life on Film,...

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Ruth Draper: He said I...

Ruth Draper: He said I...

He said I was the most sensitive person he had ever seen -- that I belonged to the hyper-hyper type and we rarely...

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Elizabeth Taylor: When people say,...

Elizabeth Taylor: When people say,...

When people say, She's got everything, I've got one answer: I haven't had tomorrow.

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Barbara Stanwyck: Egotism -- usually...

Barbara Stanwyck: Egotism -- usually...

Egotism -- usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.

Source: In The New Webster's...

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Maggie Smith: Little girls, I...

Maggie Smith: Little girls, I...

Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the cr?me de la...

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Marjorie Main: Pa ain't much...

Marjorie Main: Pa ain't much...

Pa ain't much for working and the rest the youngen's seem to take after him.

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Jane Seymour: Music has brought...

Jane Seymour: Music has brought...

Music has brought me some of the highest moments of my life. I don't even hear the music. I don't even hear the notes....

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Candice Bergen: When are you...

Candice Bergen: When are you...

When are you going to realize that if it doesn't apply to me it doesn't matter?

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Gypsy Rose Lee: God is love,...

Gypsy Rose Lee: God is love,...

God is love, but get it in writing.

Source: Attributed.
-- Gypsy Rose Lee, (Feb...

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Jackie Moms Mabley: The teenagers ain't...

Jackie Moms Mabley: The teenagers ain't...

The teenagers ain't all bad. I love 'ern if nobody else does. There ain't nothin' wrong with young people. Jus' quit...

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Drew Barrymore: It's only through...

Drew Barrymore: It's only through...

It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.

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