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Phyllis Diller: Always be nice...

Phyllis Diller: Always be nice...

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

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Louise Erdrich: They were so...

Louise Erdrich: They were so...

They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were;...

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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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Aphra Behn: Variety is the...

Aphra Behn: Variety is the...

Variety is the soul of pleasure.

Source: The Rover, Pt II. I
-- Aphra Behn, (Jul...

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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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Diane Wakoski: Poems reveal secrets...

Diane Wakoski: Poems reveal secrets...

Poems reveal secrets when they are analyzed. The poet's pleasure in finding ingenious ways to enclose her secrets...

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Tallulah Bankhead: I am as...

Tallulah Bankhead: I am as...

I am as pure as the driven slush.

Source:
-- Tallulah Bankhead, (Jan 31...

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Lillian Gish: What you get...

Lillian Gish: What you get...

What you get is a living -- what you give is a life.

Source: In An Uncommon Scold,...

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Helen Gahagan Douglas: Character isn't inherited....

Helen Gahagan Douglas: Character isn't inherited....

Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by...

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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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Glenda Jackson: Acting is not...

Glenda Jackson: Acting is not...

Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget...

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Debra Winger: I make decisions...

Debra Winger: I make decisions...

I make decisions for my life, not the other way around. Besides, when you have a kid, you must weigh everything...

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Maria Schell: If there were...

Maria Schell: If there were...

If there were one city I should pick to live in, it would be New York. It is a city where I walk down the street and...

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Kirstie Alley: I was a...

Kirstie Alley: I was a...

I was a Scientologist before I was an actress, and I've always felt people are not only content with whatever religion...

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Joan Collins: The secret of...

Joan Collins: The secret of...

The secret of having a personal life is not answering too many questions about it.

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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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Coco Chanel: I invented my...

Coco Chanel: I invented my...

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would...

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Georgia O'Keeffe: I don't very...

Georgia O'Keeffe: I don't very...

I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them...

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Diane Arbus: Love involves a...

Diane Arbus: Love involves a...

Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.

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Barbara Hepworth: . . ....

Barbara Hepworth: . . ....

. . . I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.

Source: The Sculptor...

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