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Est?e Lauder: Touch a face....

Est?e Lauder: Touch a face....

Touch a face. Touch a hand. Say, This is for you, this is what I want you, to wear.

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Audiences are always...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Audiences are always...

Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of...

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Tina Turner: The real power...

Tina Turner: The real power...

The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself -- something that's in all of...

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Pearl Bailey: People see God...

Pearl Bailey: People see God...

People see God every day, they just don't recognize Him.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Mary Antin: It is only...

Mary Antin: It is only...

It is only that my illusion is more real to me than reality. And so do we often build our world on an error, and cry...

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Nancy Reagan: I don't think...

Nancy Reagan: I don't think...

I don't think most people associate me with leeches or how to get them off. But I know how to get them off. I'm an...

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Pat Nixon: I'll have to...

Pat Nixon: I'll have to...

I'll have to have a room of my own. Nobody could sleep with Dick. He wakes up during the night, switches on the...

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Books succeed, and...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Books succeed, and...

Books succeed, and lives fail.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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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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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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Dorothy Gilman: A man from...

Dorothy Gilman: A man from...

A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes.

Source: Incident at Badamaya,...

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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.

Source:...

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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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Bella Abzug: The establishment is...

Bella Abzug: The establishment is...

The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.

Source: In Bella!, by...

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Barbara De Angelis: What allows us,...

Barbara De Angelis: What allows us,...

What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and...

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Meridel Le Sueur: Surround of rainbows...

Meridel Le Sueur: Surround of rainbows...

Surround of rainbows
Listen
The rain comes upon us
Restore us.


Source:...

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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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Barbara Bush: I'm not saying...

Barbara Bush: I'm not saying...

I'm not saying to be happy you must be married. Nor am I saying that to be happy you need children. I'm saying that...

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Barbara Jordan: I never intended...

Barbara Jordan: I never intended...

I never intended to become a run-of-the-mill person.

Source:
-- Barbara Jordan,...

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