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Mary Antin: My friendships, my...

Mary Antin: My friendships, my...

My friendships, my advantages and disadvantages, my gifts, my habits, my ambitions these were the materials out of...

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Edith Evans: Death is my...

Edith Evans: Death is my...

Death is my neighbour now.

Source: Said a week before her death. BBC radio...

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Mae West: When it comes...

Mae West: When it comes...

When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of...

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Cornelia Otis Skinner: I can't see...

Cornelia Otis Skinner: I can't see...

I can't see how any woman can find time to do to herself all the things that must apparently be done to make herself...

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Mary Tyler Moore: Sometimes you have...

Mary Tyler Moore: Sometimes you have...

Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.

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Candice Bergen: Living in L.A....

Candice Bergen: Living in L.A....

Living in L.A. is like not having a date on Saturday night.

Source: In The Book of...

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Camille Paglia: Our major universities...

Camille Paglia: Our major universities...

Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around...

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Elayne Boosler: To listen to...

Elayne Boosler: To listen to...

To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Elayne Boosler: I'm just a...

Elayne Boosler: I'm just a...

I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Joan Rivers: Anger is a...

Joan Rivers: Anger is a...

Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly -- hurt, bitterness,...

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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: You see much...

Lucille Ball: You see much...

You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Joan Baez: Action is the...

Joan Baez: Action is the...

Action is the antidote to despair.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...

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Joan Baez: I've never had...

Joan Baez: I've never had...

I've never had a humble opinion in my life. If you're going to have one, why bother to be humble about...

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Rita Dove: We tend to...

Rita Dove: We tend to...

We tend to be so bombarded with information. . . This is antithetical to the kind of openness and perception you have...

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Sonia Sanchez: Art . ....

Sonia Sanchez: Art . ....

Art . . . reacts to or reflects the culture it springs from.

Source:...

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Maureen Duffy: We all have...

Maureen Duffy: We all have...

We all have to rise in the end, not just one or two who were smart enough, had will enough for their own salvation,...

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Edith Nesbitt: Time is, as...

Edith Nesbitt: Time is, as...

Time is, as you are probably aware, merely a convenient fiction. There is no such thing as...

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Anna Letitia Barbauld: But every act...

Anna Letitia Barbauld: But every act...

But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.

Source: Remarks on...

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Vera Brittain: The idea that...

Vera Brittain: The idea that...

The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer . . . is one of those...

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