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Jessamyn West: If I were...

Jessamyn West: If I were...

If I were to join a circle of any kind, it would be one that required its members to try something new at least once a...

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Toni Morrison: The ability of...

Toni Morrison: The ability of...

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the...

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Emily Carr: You come into...

Emily Carr: You come into...

You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone, yet it seems to me you are more alone while living...

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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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Diane Arbus: My favorite thing...

Diane Arbus: My favorite thing...

My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.

Source: In Diane Arbus: An...

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Katharine Graham: Bromidic though it...

Katharine Graham: Bromidic though it...

Bromidic though it may sound, some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to...

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Katharine Graham: A mistake is...

Katharine Graham: A mistake is...

A mistake is simply another way of doing things.

Source: In The Manager's Book of...

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Judith Jamison: Once you've danced,...

Judith Jamison: Once you've danced,...

Once you've danced, you always dance. You can't deny the gifts that God sends your way.

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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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Marianne Moore: Impatience is the...

Marianne Moore: Impatience is the...

Impatience is the mark of independence,
not of bondage.


Source: In The Speaker's...

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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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Louise A Bogan: Innocence of heart...

Louise A Bogan: Innocence of heart...

Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist...

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Lorraine Hansberry: [T]here is only...

Lorraine Hansberry: [T]here is only...

[T]here is only one large circle that we march in, around and around, each of us with our own little picture -- in...

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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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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: 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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Anne Bradstreet: Thou ill-form,d offspring...

Anne Bradstreet: Thou ill-form,d offspring...

Thou ill-form,d offspring of my feeble brain . . .

Source: From the Author to her...

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Joanne Woodward: There can be...

Joanne Woodward: There can be...

There can be no one best way of organizing a business.

Source: In Words of Women...

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