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Lucy Stone: In education, in...

Lucy Stone: In education, in...

In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of women. It shall be the business...

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Sally Kempton: It is hard...

Sally Kempton: It is hard...

It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

Source: Cutting Loose,...

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Elizabeth Hardwick: Letters are useful...

Elizabeth Hardwick: Letters are useful...

Letters are useful as a means of expressing the ideal self. . . . In letters we can reform without practice, beg...

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Shirley Jones: It was a...

Shirley Jones: It was a...

It was a wonderful time [making The Partridge Family] and I loved every minute of it. We had a great executive...

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Virginia Graham: When some people...

Virginia Graham: When some people...

When some people retire, it's going to be mighty hard to be able to tell the difference.

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Yoko Ono: All my concerts...

Yoko Ono: All my concerts...

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their...

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Joan Rivers: Your anger can...

Joan Rivers: Your anger can...

Your anger can be 49 % and your comedy 51 %, and you're okay. If the anger is 51 %, the comedy is...

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Jane Wagner: Our ability to...

Jane Wagner: Our ability to...

Our ability to delude ourselves may be an important survival tool.

Source: From an...

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Alice Childress: Who wants to...

Alice Childress: Who wants to...

Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia? Our time is forever...

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Lauren Bacall: Generally women are...

Lauren Bacall: Generally women are...

Generally women are better than men -- they have more character. I prefer men for some things, obviously, but women...

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Gilda Radner: Life is about...

Gilda Radner: Life is about...

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going...

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Whoopi Goldberg: The art of...

Whoopi Goldberg: The art of...

The art of acting is to be other than what you are.

Source: In What's Whoopi...

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Liv Ullmann: Hollywood is loneliness...

Liv Ullmann: Hollywood is loneliness...

Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Anne Baxter: See into life...

Anne Baxter: See into life...

See into life -- don't just look at it.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Maya Ying Lin: To fly we...

Maya Ying Lin: To fly we...

To fly we have to have resistance.

Source:
-- Maya Ying Lin, (Oct 5 1959-____),...

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May Swenson: I was the...

May Swenson: I was the...

I was the horse and the rider . . .

Source: The Centaur, Sts. I & 2, To Mix with...

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Emily Dickinson: To fight aloud...

Emily Dickinson: To fight aloud...

To fight aloud is very brave,
But gallanter, I know,
Who charge within the bosom
The Cavalry of...

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Fannie Hurst: Any writer worth...

Fannie Hurst: Any writer worth...

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another...

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Billie Holiday: You can be...

Billie Holiday: You can be...

You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can...

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Bette Midler: Cherish forever what...

Bette Midler: Cherish forever what...

Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes!

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