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Ma Rainey: If you don't...

Ma Rainey: If you don't...

If you don't like my ocean don't fish in my sea
Stay out of my valley and let my mountain...

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Beatrice Lillie: I took up...

Beatrice Lillie: I took up...

I took up knitting from time to time as a relaxation, but I always put it down again before going out to buy a rocking...

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Lucille Ball: If you want...

Lucille Ball: If you want...

If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can...

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Joanna Baillie: How do men...

Joanna Baillie: How do men...

How do men act, when they together stand,
on the last perch of this swiftly-sinking wreck?
Do they not bravely...

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Letitia Landon: No thoroughly occupied...

Letitia Landon: No thoroughly occupied...

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Jessie Redmon Fauset: The remarkable thing...

Jessie Redmon Fauset: The remarkable thing...

The remarkable thing about this gift of ours is that it has its rise, I am convinced, in the very woes which beset us...

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Anne Spencer: Is any prophet...

Anne Spencer: Is any prophet...

Is any prophet come to teach a new thing
Now in a more apt time?


Source: Before...

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Diane Ackerman: A poem records...

Diane Ackerman: A poem records...

A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at...

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox: The splendid discontent...

Ella Wheeler Wilcox: The splendid discontent...

The splendid discontent of God
With chaos made the world.


Source: Discontent,...

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Gloria Swanson: All creative people...

Gloria Swanson: All creative people...

All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.

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Eleanor Robson Belmont: A woman in...

Eleanor Robson Belmont: A woman in...

A woman in agony of spirit might turn her head just so; a man in deep humiliation probably would wring his hands in...

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Grandma Moses: I have written...

Grandma Moses: I have written...

I have written my life in small sketches, a little today, a little yesterday . . . I look back on my life a good day's...

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Georgia O'Keeffe: I decided that...

Georgia O'Keeffe: I decided that...

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its...

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Berenice Abbott: I took to...

Berenice Abbott: I took to...

I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject is the...

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Marilyn Monroe: I don't want...

Marilyn Monroe: I don't want...

I don't want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.

Source: The First Ms....

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Mrs Patrick Campbell: Do you know...

Mrs Patrick Campbell: Do you know...

Do you know why God withheld the sense of humour from women?
That we may love you instead of laughing at...

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Kim Cattrall: I think the...

Kim Cattrall: I think the...

I think the wonderful thing about doing theater is that it's more of an actor's medium. I think that film is more of a...

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Marie Lloyd: Oh, mister porter,...

Marie Lloyd: Oh, mister porter,...

Oh, mister porter, what shall I do?
I wanted to go to Birmingham, but they've carried me on to...

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Pearl Bailey: There's a period...

Pearl Bailey: There's a period...

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour...

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Lena Horne: You have to...

Lena Horne: You have to...

You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way.

Source: Lena,...

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