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Est?e Lauder: Look for a...

Est?e Lauder: Look for a...

Look for a sweet person. Forget rich.

Source: Advice on choosing a spouse, in New...

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Paula Nelson: Women's battle for...

Paula Nelson: Women's battle for...

Women's battle for financial equality has barely been joined, much less won. Society still traditionally assigns to...

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Susan RoAne: Respect for people...

Susan RoAne: Respect for people...

Respect for people is the cornerstone of communication and networking in the nineties.

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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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Thelma Ritter: Nobody ever invented...

Thelma Ritter: Nobody ever invented...

Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet.

Source: Ritter Kelly when...

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Jacqueline Bisset: You've got to...

Jacqueline Bisset: You've got to...

You've got to work on your voice, it's your tool and represents you. It's very important to have a good voice where...

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Diana Ross: Instead of looking...

Diana Ross: Instead of looking...

Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to...

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Pearl Bailey: Everybody wants to...

Pearl Bailey: Everybody wants to...

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be first.

Source: In...

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Mary Antin: A long past...

Mary Antin: A long past...

A long past vividly remembered is like a heavy garment that clings to your limbs when you would...

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Millicent Fenwick: The only people...

Millicent Fenwick: The only people...

The only people who would be in government are those who care more about people than they do about...

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Catherine the Great: For to tempt...

Catherine the Great: For to tempt...

For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied . . . whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter,...

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Pat Nixon: I have sacrificed...

Pat Nixon: I have sacrificed...

I have sacrificed everything in my life that I consider precious in order to advance the political career of my...

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Imelda Marcos: I did not...

Imelda Marcos: I did not...

I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.

Source:...

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Rachel Donaldson Jackson: Believe me, this...

Rachel Donaldson Jackson: Believe me, this...

Believe me, this country [Florida] has been greatly overrated. One acre of our fine Tennessee land is worth a thousand...

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Ann (and Jane) Taylor: Though man a...

Ann (and Jane) Taylor: Though man a...

Though man a thinking being is defined,
Few use the grand prerogative of mind.
How few think justly of the...

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Vita Sackville-West: It is necessary...

Vita Sackville-West: It is necessary...

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly...

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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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Frances Watkins Harper: Apparent failure may...

Frances Watkins Harper: Apparent failure may...

Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit...

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Anne Bradstreet: Youth is the...

Anne Bradstreet: Youth is the...

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

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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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