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Djuna Barnes: The priceless galaxy...

Djuna Barnes: The priceless galaxy...

The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind . . .

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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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Susan Warner: Well, we're all...

Susan Warner: Well, we're all...

Well, we're all somebody, of course, in one sense. Of course we're not nobody.''
I am not so sure what you think...

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Ruth Westheimer: Don't criticize in...

Ruth Westheimer: Don't criticize in...

Don't criticize in the sack. Discuss constructively later.

Source: In Words of...

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bell hooks: It is crucial...

bell hooks: It is crucial...

It is crucial for the future of the Black liberation struggle that we remain ever mindful that ours is a shared...

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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: That past which...

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: That past which...

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past...

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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: A religious life...

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: A religious life...

A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Annie Dillard: A schedule defends...

Annie Dillard: A schedule defends...

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand...

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Erica Jong: I went for...

Erica Jong: I went for...

I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged. . . . I had...

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Margery Allingham: I am one...

Margery Allingham: I am one...

I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs...

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Margaret Mitchell: I was never...

Margaret Mitchell: I was never...

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended...

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Dorothy L Sayers: There certainly does...

Dorothy L Sayers: There certainly does...

There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will...

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Rachel Field: There was no...

Rachel Field: There was no...

There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities...

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Margaret Halsey: Bulldogs have been...

Margaret Halsey: Bulldogs have been...

Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.

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Barbara Bush: You don't just...

Barbara Bush: You don't just...

You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is...

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Elizabeth Dole: My objective as...

Elizabeth Dole: My objective as...

My objective as Secretary of Labor is to look through the 'glass ceiling' to see who is on the other side, and to...

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Barbara Jordan: I never intended...

Barbara Jordan: I never intended...

I never intended to become a run-of-the-mill person.

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-- Barbara Jordan,...

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Michelle Obama: One of the...

Michelle Obama: One of the...

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says...

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Elizabeth I: I know I...

Elizabeth I: I know I...

I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of...

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Christina of Sweden: Nuns and married...

Christina of Sweden: Nuns and married...

Nuns and married women are equally unhappy, if in different ways.

Source: Maxims,...

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