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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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Katharine Graham: If one is...

Katharine Graham: If one is...

If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood.

Source: In The...

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Judith Jamison: Every dancer lives...

Judith Jamison: Every dancer lives...

Every dancer lives on the threshold of chucking it.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Martha Graham: You are unique,...

Martha Graham: You are unique,...

You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost.

Source:...

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Adelaide A Proctor: Seated one day...

Adelaide A Proctor: Seated one day...

Seated one day at the organ,
I was weary and ill at ease,
And my fingers wandered idly
Over the noisy...

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Marianne Moore: Poetry: Not til...

Marianne Moore: Poetry: Not til...

Poetry: Not til poets among us can be 'literalists of imagination' -- above insolence and triviality and can present...

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Rita Dove: Here's a riddle...

Rita Dove: Here's a riddle...

Here's a riddle for Our Age: when the sky's the limit, how can you tell you've gone too...

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Gloria Swanson: I am big....

Gloria Swanson: I am big....

I am big. It's the pictures that got small.

Source: As Norma Desmond, in Sunset...

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Rose Elizabeth Bird: My role isn't...

Rose Elizabeth Bird: My role isn't...

My role isn't to be politically smart. My role is to do what's right under the constitution. And if that's politically...

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Paule Marshall: A person can...

Paule Marshall: A person can...

A person can run for years but sooner or later he has to take a stand in the place which, for better or worse, he...

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George Sand: He who draws...

George Sand: He who draws...

He who draws noble delights from the sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all...

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Maxine Hong Kingston: The difference between...

Maxine Hong Kingston: The difference between...

The difference between mad people and sane people . . . is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad...

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Margot Asquith: No one ever...

Margot Asquith: No one ever...

No one ever pruned me. If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days,...

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Jessamyn West: In their sympathies,...

Jessamyn West: In their sympathies,...

In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.

Source: The Life I...

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Mary Martha Sherwood: . . ....

Mary Martha Sherwood: . . ....

. . . it is the very nature of sin to prevent man from meditating on spiritual things. . .

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Toni Morrison: The ability of...

Toni Morrison: The ability of...

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the...

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Eleanor Roosevelt: It takes as...

Eleanor Roosevelt: It takes as...

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Jill Ruckelshaus: The best way...

Jill Ruckelshaus: The best way...

The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right.

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-- Jill...

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Margaret Thatcher: Look at a...

Margaret Thatcher: Look at a...

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing. It's...

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Edith Clara Summerskill: Today, literate people...

Edith Clara Summerskill: Today, literate people...

Today, literate people of the space age, in well-populated countries, are not prepared to accept taboos without...

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