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Marge Piercy: The pitcher cries...

Marge Piercy: The pitcher cries...

The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.

Source:...

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Helen Rowland: A fool and...

Helen Rowland: A fool and...

A fool and her money are soon courted.

Source: A Guide to Men, First Interlude ...

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Helen Rowland: A good woman...

Helen Rowland: A good woman...

A good woman is known by what she does; a good man by what he doesn't.

Source: In...

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Helen Rowland: Call the bald...

Helen Rowland: Call the bald...

Call the bald man, Boy; make the sage thy toy;
Greet the youth with solemn face; praise the fat man for his...

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: I believe that...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: I believe that...

I believe that what women resent is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself...

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Barbara Ehrenreich: In sci-fi convention,...

Barbara Ehrenreich: In sci-fi convention,...

In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory -- horse-shoe crabs of the...

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Peggy Noonan: Now he is...

Peggy Noonan: Now he is...

Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult...

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Peggy Noonan: You don't have...

Peggy Noonan: You don't have...

You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: That world is gone.

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Catherine Drinker Bowen: There is a...

Catherine Drinker Bowen: There is a...

There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as...

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Gail Sheehy: The delights of...

Gail Sheehy: The delights of...

The delights of self-discovery are always available.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Maya Angelou: There's a world...

Maya Angelou: There's a world...

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.

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Susan Sontag: Camp is a...

Susan Sontag: Camp is a...

Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style but a particular style. It is the love of the...

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Susan Sontag: A fiction about...

Susan Sontag: A fiction about...

A fiction about soft or easy deaths. . . is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or...

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Dorothy Height: When you're a...

Dorothy Height: When you're a...

When you're a black woman, you seldom get to do what you just want to do; you always do what you have to...

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Anne Tyler: I didn't really...

Anne Tyler: I didn't really...

I didn't really choose to be a writer; I more or less fell into it.

Source: A...

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Isak Dinesen: But the trouble...

Isak Dinesen: But the trouble...

But the trouble is not as you think now, that we have put up obstacles too high for you to jump . . . . It is that we...

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Jean Stafford: A small silence...

Jean Stafford: A small silence...

A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall.

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Elizabeth Bowen: Autumn arrives in...

Elizabeth Bowen: Autumn arrives in...

Autumn arrives in the early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.

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Erica Jong: Bigamy is having...

Erica Jong: Bigamy is having...

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Source: In Webster's...

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Maria Edgeworth: All work and...

Maria Edgeworth: All work and...

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy,
All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy.


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