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Edith Clara Summerskill: Nagging is the...

Edith Clara Summerskill: Nagging is the...

Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.

Source: Speech, 1960.
-- Edith...

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Ruth Benedict: In a world...

Ruth Benedict: In a world...

In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails, why should one condemn oneself to live day-in, day-out with...

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Enid Bagnold: As for death...

Enid Bagnold: As for death...

As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

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Cynthia Ozick: After a certain...

Cynthia Ozick: After a certain...

After a certain number of years our faces become our biographies. We get to be responsible for our...

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Kathleen Norris: In spite of...

Kathleen Norris: In spite of...

In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Anna Sewell: Now I say...

Anna Sewell: Now I say...

Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see...

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Marion Zimmer Bradley: The truth is...

Marion Zimmer Bradley: The truth is...

The truth is not so good a story.

Source: The Firebrand, 1987.
-- Marion Zimmer...

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Rumer Godden: The motto was...

Rumer Godden: The motto was...

The motto was Pax, but the word was set in a circle of thorns.

Source: On a...

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Pearl Buck: Every great mistake...

Pearl Buck: Every great mistake...

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps...

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Alice Walker: Expect nothing. Live...

Alice Walker: Expect nothing. Live...

Expect nothing. Live frugally
On surprise.


Source: Expect Nothing, Revolutionary...

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Harriet Tubman: Twan't me, 'twas...

Harriet Tubman: Twan't me, 'twas...

Twan't me, 'twas de Lord! Jes' so long as he wanted to use me, he would take keer of me, an' when he didn't want me no...

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Andrea Dworkin: For a mother...

Andrea Dworkin: For a mother...

For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for. She can watch him, as a...

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Margaret Anderson: I have always...

Margaret Anderson: I have always...

I have always fought for ideas -- until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which...

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Erma Bombeck: When I stand...

Erma Bombeck: When I stand...

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and...

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Virgilia Peterson: There is no...

Virgilia Peterson: There is no...

There is no plummet to sound another's soul.

Source: A Matter of Life and Death,...

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: I understand why...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: I understand why...

I understand why the saints were rarely married women. It has primarily to do with distractions . . . Woman's normal...

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Susan Sontag: I was not...

Susan Sontag: I was not...

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my...

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Susan Sontag: The truth is...

Susan Sontag: The truth is...

The truth is that Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton,...

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Elizabeth Hardwick: The language of...

Elizabeth Hardwick: The language of...

The language of the younger generation. . . has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power . . ....

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Susan Sontag: The truth is...

Susan Sontag: The truth is...

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

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