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Gwendolyn Bennett: Some things are...

Gwendolyn Bennett: Some things are...

Some things are very dear to me --
Such things as flowers bathed by rain
Or patterns traced upon the...

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Dorothy Day: I have long...

Dorothy Day: I have long...

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their...

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Jane Addams: In his own...

Jane Addams: In his own...

In his own way each man must struggle, lest the moral law become a far-off abstraction utterly separated from his...

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Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: Taught from infancy...

Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: Taught from infancy...

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt...

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Dorothy Parker: This living, this...

Dorothy Parker: This living, this...

This living, this living, this living
Was never a project of mine.


Source:...

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Harriet Van Horne: Cooking is like...

Harriet Van Horne: Cooking is like...

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.

Source:...

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Pauline Kael: In this country...

Pauline Kael: In this country...

In this country we encourage creativity among the mediocre, but real bursting creativity appalls us. We put it down as...

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Maya Angelou: I love to...

Maya Angelou: I love to...

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick...

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Kate Chopin: I wonder if...

Kate Chopin: I wonder if...

I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of...

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Kate Chopin: The bird that...

Kate Chopin: The bird that...

The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong...

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Susan Sontag: All. . ....

Susan Sontag: All. . ....

All. . . forms of consensus about great books and perennial problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate eventually...

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Judith Martin: When a society...

Judith Martin: When a society...

When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly...

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Joanna Field: I began to...

Joanna Field: I began to...

I began to have an idea of my life, not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the...

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Mary Catherine Bateson: There are few...

Mary Catherine Bateson: There are few...

There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.

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Margaret Walker: Friends and good...

Margaret Walker: Friends and good...

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

Source: Ji`bilee,...

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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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Ariel Durant: One of the...

Ariel Durant: One of the...

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to...

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St Teresa of Avila: How is it,...

St Teresa of Avila: How is it,...

How is it, Lord, that we are cowards in everything save in opposing Thee?

Source:...

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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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Louisa May Alcott: Talent isn't genius...

Louisa May Alcott: Talent isn't genius...

Talent isn't genius and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace...

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