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Janet Frame: Writing a novel...

Janet Frame: Writing a novel...

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and...

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Janet Frame: Electricity, the peril...

Janet Frame: Electricity, the peril...

Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day. . .

Source:...

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George Eliot: For what we...

George Eliot: For what we...

For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities -- a willing movement of...

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Rose Tremain: Kept falling in...

Rose Tremain: Kept falling in...

Kept falling in and out of it [sleep] like out of a boat or a tipping hammock.

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Rose Tremain: The Imagination conjures...

Rose Tremain: The Imagination conjures...

The Imagination conjures gifts; what the ungrateful, unsentimental part of the mind has to do is to unwrap them, find...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: Mothers are the...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Mothers are the...

Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.

Source: In Readers' Digest.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe: Whipping and abuse...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Whipping and abuse...

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum; you have to double the dose as the sensibilities...

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Mary Wortley Montagu: I despise the...

Mary Wortley Montagu: I despise the...

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

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P D James: There comes a...

P D James: There comes a...

There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: Many a humble...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Many a humble...

Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of daily life, has blossomed...

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P D James: A man who...

P D James: A man who...

A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English...

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Clara Barton: Others are writing...

Clara Barton: Others are writing...

Others are writing my biography, and let it rest as they elect to make it. I have lived my life, well and ill, always...

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Lillian Carter: Every time I...

Lillian Carter: Every time I...

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and going to the grave, something else happens.

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Lillian Carter: Every time I...

Lillian Carter: Every time I...

Every time I think that I am getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else...

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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: When I felt...

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: When I felt...

When I felt rather overcome with [my father's] opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have this or...

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Mary Steichen Calderone: Before the child...

Mary Steichen Calderone: Before the child...

Before the child ever gets to school it will have received crucial, almost irrevocable sex education and this will...

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Joyce Brothers: When you come...

Joyce Brothers: When you come...

When you come right down to it, the secret of having it all is loving it all.

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Joyce Brothers: A strong, positive...

Joyce Brothers: A strong, positive...

A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.

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Han Suyin: Exploitation and oppression...

Han Suyin: Exploitation and oppression...

Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called...

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George Eliot: Our impartiality is...

George Eliot: Our impartiality is...

Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.

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