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Maya Angelou: Life loves the...

Maya Angelou: Life loves the...

Life loves the liver of it.

Source: The Black Scholar Interviews Maya Angelou, Jan...

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Mary Pettibone Poole: The next best...

Mary Pettibone Poole: The next best...

The next best thing to being clever is being able to quote someone who is.

Source:...

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Dorothy Canfield Fisher: Our imaginations seem...

Dorothy Canfield Fisher: Our imaginations seem...

Our imaginations seem to have been torn open . . . as by a charge of dynamite.

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Judith Martin: If written directions...

Judith Martin: If written directions...

If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities...

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Margaret Anderson: Intellectuals are too...

Margaret Anderson: Intellectuals are too...

Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.

Source: The Strange Necessity, pt. 1,...

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Barbara Smith: One of the...

Barbara Smith: One of the...

One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and...

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Ellen Goodman: Values are not...

Ellen Goodman: Values are not...

Values are not trendy items that are casually traded in.

Source: In Reader's...

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Jamaica Kincaid: My disappointments stand...

Jamaica Kincaid: My disappointments stand...

My disappointments stand up and grow ever taller. They will not be lost to me.

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Fran Lebowitz: Ask your child...

Fran Lebowitz: Ask your child...

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Source: Social...

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Fran Lebowitz: If you are...

Fran Lebowitz: If you are...

If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater. . . suggest that he wear a...

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Marya Mannes: In our society...

Marya Mannes: In our society...

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend...

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Doris Lilly: The women [who...

Doris Lilly: The women [who...

The women [who marry millionaires] usually do everything for their men. They pack for them, make their phone calls and...

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Dorothy Thompson: There is nothing...

Dorothy Thompson: There is nothing...

There is nothing more demoralizing than sudden, overwhelming disillusionment

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Shana Alexander: The law changes...

Shana Alexander: The law changes...

The law changes and flows like water, and ... the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing...

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Delphine de Girardin: Instinct is the...

Delphine de Girardin: Instinct is the...

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

Source: In Reader's Digest, 1 Oct 1972.
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Christina Baldwin: Journal writing is...

Christina Baldwin: Journal writing is...

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations...

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Alice Koller: Long ago I...

Alice Koller: Long ago I...

Long ago I understood that it wasn't merely my being a woman that was preventing my being welcomed into the world of...

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Marjorie Holmes: Man is the...

Marjorie Holmes: Man is the...

Man is the only creature whose emotions are entangled with his memory.

Source: In...

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Barbara Ehrenreich: The media have...

Barbara Ehrenreich: The media have...

The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great pendulum of...

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Dorothea Brande: Envisioning the end...

Dorothea Brande: Envisioning the end...

Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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