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Marian Wright Edelman: No one, Eleanor...

Marian Wright Edelman: No one, Eleanor...

No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give...

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Babe Didrikson Zaharias: A couple of...

Babe Didrikson Zaharias: A couple of...

A couple of hours of practice is worth ten sloppy rounds.

Source: In The Golfer's...

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Simone Signoret: Nostalgia isn't what...

Simone Signoret: Nostalgia isn't what...

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Lynda Barry: If it is...

Lynda Barry: If it is...

If it is your time love will track you down like a cruise missile. If you say No! I don't want it right now, that's...

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Georgia O'Keeffe: I had to...

Georgia O'Keeffe: I had to...

I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it.

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Elizabeth Arden: Nothing that costs...

Elizabeth Arden: Nothing that costs...

Nothing that costs only a dollar is worth having.

Source: In In Cosmetics the Old...

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Grace Hansen: Don't be afraid...

Grace Hansen: Don't be afraid...

Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.

Source:...

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Like some small...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Like some small...

Like some small nimble mouse between the ribs
Of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there
At this or that box,...

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Joanna Baillie: Still on it...

Joanna Baillie: Still on it...

Still on it creeps,
Each little moment at another's heels,
Till hours, days, years, and ages are made up
Of...

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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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Louise Erdrich: It was enough...

Louise Erdrich: It was enough...

It was enough just to sit there without words.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations...

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Nathalie Sarraute: We're swallowed up...

Nathalie Sarraute: We're swallowed up...

We're swallowed up only when we are willing for it to happen.

Source: The...

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Anne Bradstreet: I am obnoxious...

Anne Bradstreet: I am obnoxious...

I am obnoxious to each carping tongue
Who says my hand a needle better fits,
A poet's pen all scorn I should...

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Anne Sexton: It doesn't matter...

Anne Sexton: It doesn't matter...

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

Source: The...

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Anne Bradstreet: And he...

Anne Bradstreet: And he...

And he that knowes the most, cloth still bemoan
He knows not all that here is to be...

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Cher: Yes, it's a...

Cher: Yes, it's a...

Yes, it's a man's world, but that's all right because they're making a total mess of it. We're chipping away at their...

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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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Rachel Donaldson Jackson: I would rather...

Rachel Donaldson Jackson: I would rather...

I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of God than live in that palace at Washington.

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Sarah Bernhardt: Life begets life....

Sarah Bernhardt: Life begets life....

Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

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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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