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Joan Collins: Loneliness is the...

Joan Collins: Loneliness is the...

Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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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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Geraldine Ferraro: You don't go...

Geraldine Ferraro: You don't go...

You don't go through a bloodbath like this and then walk away from it.

Source: In...

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Ann Richards: I believe in...

Ann Richards: I believe in...

I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you...

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Nancy Astor: I used to...

Nancy Astor: I used to...

I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that...

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Agatha Christie: I didn't want...

Agatha Christie: I didn't want...

I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing...

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Dinah Mulock Craik: Keep what is...

Dinah Mulock Craik: Keep what is...

Keep what is worth keeping --
And with the breath of kindness
Blow the rest away.


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Joan L Curcio: Advances are made...

Joan L Curcio: Advances are made...

Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can...

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Rose Elizabeth Bird: It's always the...

Rose Elizabeth Bird: It's always the...

It's always the minorities who aren't a part of the mainstream who define what the limits . . . of the majority are...

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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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Margaret Walker: White folks needs...

Margaret Walker: White folks needs...

White folks needs what black folks got just as much as black folks needs what white folks got, and we's all got to...

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Margaret Walker: Now when you...

Margaret Walker: Now when you...

Now when you hates you shrinks up inside and gets littler and you squeezes your heart tight and you stays so mad...

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Grace Murray Hopper: A ship in...

Grace Murray Hopper: A ship in...

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

Source: In Mothers...

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Mary Renault: The perpetual stream...

Mary Renault: The perpetual stream...

The perpetual stream of human nature is formed into ever-changing shallows, eddies, falls and pools by the land over...

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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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George Sand: The trade of...

George Sand: The trade of...

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

Source: Letter,...

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Margaret Halsey: Bulldogs have been...

Margaret Halsey: Bulldogs have been...

Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.

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Harper Lee: The one thing...

Harper Lee: The one thing...

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

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Barbara Jordan: What the people...

Barbara Jordan: What the people...

What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise.

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Eva Peron: Charity separates the...

Eva Peron: Charity separates the...

Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the...

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