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Ethel Merman: Always give them...

Ethel Merman: Always give them...

Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice.

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Why do progress...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Why do progress...

Why do progress and beauty have to be so opposed?

Source: Hour of Glory, Hour of...

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Gwendolyn Brooks: I am a...

Gwendolyn Brooks: I am a...

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.

Source: In My Soul Looks Back,...

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Faith Popcorn: The future bears...

Faith Popcorn: The future bears...

The future bears a resemblance to the past, only more so.

Source: The Popcorn...

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Natalie Clifford Barney: Renouncement: the heroism...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Renouncement: the heroism...

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

Source: Quoted in: Gods, in Adam, no. 299...

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Gloria Naylor: One should be...

Gloria Naylor: One should be...

One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire...

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Madonna: To me, the...

Madonna: To me, the...

To me, the whole process of being a brushstroke in someone else's painting is a little...

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Olympia Brown: He who never...

Olympia Brown: He who never...

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the...

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Alice Koller: Being solitary is...

Alice Koller: Being solitary is...

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the...

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Anouk Aimee: For a certain...

Anouk Aimee: For a certain...

For a certain type of woman who risks losing her identity in a man, there are all those questions. . . until you get...

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Amy Lowell: Happiness, to some...

Amy Lowell: Happiness, to some...

Happiness, to some elation;
Is to others, mere stagnation.


Source: In The...

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Sophia Loren: It's a mistake...

Sophia Loren: It's a mistake...

It's a mistake to think that once you're done with school you need never learn anything...

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Barbara Jordan: There is no...

Barbara Jordan: There is no...

There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and...

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Anna Pavlova: What exactly is...

Anna Pavlova: What exactly is...

What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feeling that one is...

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Amy Lowell: Art is the...

Amy Lowell: Art is the...

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives...

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Barbara Jordan: We must exchange...

Barbara Jordan: We must exchange...

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse -- what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of...

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Barbara Jordan: What the people...

Barbara Jordan: What the people...

What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise.

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Joan Collins: Loneliness is the...

Joan Collins: Loneliness is the...

Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Emily Post: Nothing is less...

Emily Post: Nothing is less...

Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is...

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Goldie Hawn: How long can...

Goldie Hawn: How long can...

How long can you be cute?

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for Success, by...

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