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Elizabeth Gaskell: Sometimes one likes...

Elizabeth Gaskell: Sometimes one likes...

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their...

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Cynthia Ozick: I'm not afraid...

Cynthia Ozick: I'm not afraid...

I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential...

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Annie Dillard: There is no...

Annie Dillard: There is no...

There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.

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Annie Dillard: Crystals grew inside...

Annie Dillard: Crystals grew inside...

Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and...

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Katherine Paterson: Youth is a...

Katherine Paterson: Youth is a...

Youth is a mortal wound

Source: Jacob Have I Loved, 1980.
-- Katherine Paterson,...

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Lillian Carter: How could Jimmy...

Lillian Carter: How could Jimmy...

How could Jimmy ever criticize me? l'm his mama.

Source: In The Book of Quotes, by...

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Helene Deutsch: Their capacity for...

Helene Deutsch: Their capacity for...

Their capacity for identification is not an expression of inner poverty but of inner...

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Joyce Brothers: If your energy...

Joyce Brothers: If your energy...

If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously...

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Madame Chiang Kai-Shek: I am convinced...

Madame Chiang Kai-Shek: I am convinced...

I am convinced that we must train not only the head, but the heart and hand as well.

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Daisy Ashford: My own idear...

Daisy Ashford: My own idear...

My own idear is that these things are as piffle before the wind.

Source: The Earl...

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Taylor Caldwell: Contrary to general...

Taylor Caldwell: Contrary to general...

Contrary to general opinion, women are not so sentimental as men, but are much more...

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Nella Larsen: Why couldn't she...

Nella Larsen: Why couldn't she...

Why couldn't she have two lives, or why couldn't she be satisfied in one place?

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Margaret Truman: It's only when...

Margaret Truman: It's only when...

It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home it's only then...

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Eleanor Roosevelt: I could not,...

Eleanor Roosevelt: I could not,...

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived...

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Lillian Smith: To believe in...

Lillian Smith: To believe in...

To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future...

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Enid Bagnold: A father is...

Enid Bagnold: A father is...

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back...

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Mary Roberts Rinehart: You want the...

Mary Roberts Rinehart: You want the...

You want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.

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Ariel Durant: It is good...

Ariel Durant: It is good...

It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on...

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Dorothy Canfield Fisher: One of the...

Dorothy Canfield Fisher: One of the...

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being...

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Shana Alexander: Though a plane...

Shana Alexander: Though a plane...

Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have...

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