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Emily Dickinson: A word is...

Emily Dickinson: A word is...

A word is dead when it is said, some say.
I say it just begins to live that day.


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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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Emily Dickinson: I cannot live...

Emily Dickinson: I cannot live...

I cannot live with You --
It would be Life --
And Life is over there --
Behind the...

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Oprah Winfrey: For everyone of...

Oprah Winfrey: For everyone of...

For everyone of us that succeeds, it's because there's somebody there to show you the way...

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Oprah Winfrey: I have crossed...

Oprah Winfrey: I have crossed...

I have crossed over on the backs of Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman and Fannie Lou Hamer and Madame C.J. Walker. ...

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Lynda Barry: You know...

Lynda Barry: You know...

You know that great car-stomach feeling when you fly over a hump? That was my whole...

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Louise Nevelson: I think all...

Louise Nevelson: I think all...

I think all great innovations are built on rejections.

Source: Dawns + Dusks,...

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Bernice Fitz-Gibbon: A good ad...

Bernice Fitz-Gibbon: A good ad...

A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the...

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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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Judith Jamison: I believe that...

Judith Jamison: I believe that...

I believe that this world was set about for us to enjoy and to love and to experience and to have it all be, to a...

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Reba McEntire: When onstage, I...

Reba McEntire: When onstage, I...

When onstage, I always try to take my audience through as many emotions as I possibly can. I want them to go from...

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Nina Simone: Jazz is not...

Nina Simone: Jazz is not...

Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking. . . . the new inventive phrases we...

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Mae West: It ain't sin...

Mae West: It ain't sin...

It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

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Ethel Barrymore: I never let...

Ethel Barrymore: I never let...

I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare.

Source: On control of audiences during...

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Carol Burnett: I have always...

Carol Burnett: I have always...

I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really...

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Alice Duer Miller: If it's very...

Alice Duer Miller: If it's very...

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends -- you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest...

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Joanna Baillie: He was not...

Joanna Baillie: He was not...

He was not all a father's heart could wish;
But oh, he was my son! my only son.


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Adrienne Rich: Re-vision -- the...

Adrienne Rich: Re-vision -- the...

Re-vision -- the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction...

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Bette Davis: Never, never trust...

Bette Davis: Never, never trust...

Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.

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Brigitte Bardot: I leave before...

Brigitte Bardot: I leave before...

I leave before being left. I decide.

Source: In Newsweek, 5 Mar 1973.
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