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Virgilia Peterson: Love by its...

Virgilia Peterson: Love by its...

Love by its presence, like God by His, makes everything not necessarily clear or right or even good, but acceptable....

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Diana Vreeland: The only real...

Diana Vreeland: The only real...

The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.

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Fran Lebowitz: Even when freshly...

Fran Lebowitz: Even when freshly...

Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be...

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Renata Adler: There follows a...

Renata Adler: There follows a...

There follows a little obscenity here, a dask of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern...

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Doris Lilly: It's intoxicating for...

Doris Lilly: It's intoxicating for...

It's intoxicating for a man to be waited on. Combine this with very, very skillful sex, and that will get...

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Susan Sontag: Depression is melancholy...

Susan Sontag: Depression is melancholy...

Depression is melancholy minus its charms -- the animation, the fits.

Source:...

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Emily Dickinson: Much Madness is...

Emily Dickinson: Much Madness is...

Much Madness is divinest Sense --
To a discerning Eye --
Much Sense --the starkest Madness...

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Mae West: Right now I...

Mae West: Right now I...

Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be...

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Roseanne Barr: Women complain about...

Roseanne Barr: Women complain about...

Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month I can be...

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Roseanne Barr: Beauty comes in...

Roseanne Barr: Beauty comes in...

Beauty comes in all sizes-not just size 5.

Source: In The Quotable Quotations Book,...

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Mariah Carey: Music is what...

Mariah Carey: Music is what...

Music is what I love and it's what I feel and it's in me and to know that I can do something that I enjoy and...

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Alice Meynell: Recurrence is sure....

Alice Meynell: Recurrence is sure....

Recurrence is sure. What the mind suffered last week, or last year, it does not suffer now; but it will suffer again...

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Audre Lorde: Who I am...

Audre Lorde: Who I am...

Who I am is what fulfills me and what fulfills the vision I have of a world.

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Clara Barton: I have lived...

Clara Barton: I have lived...

I have lived my life, well and ill, always less well than I wanted it to be but it is, as it is, and as it has been;...

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Joanna Field: The growth of...

Joanna Field: The growth of...

The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.

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Judith Viorst: Superstition is foolish,...

Judith Viorst: Superstition is foolish,...

Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational -- but how much does it cost you to knock on...

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Margaret Atwood: Canada was built...

Margaret Atwood: Canada was built...

Canada was built on dead beavers.

Source: National Public Radio Interview/...

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Shirley Jackson: It is only...

Shirley Jackson: It is only...

It is only with the eyes open that a corporeal form returns, and assembles itself firmly around the hard core of...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: The obstinacy of...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: The obstinacy of...

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

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Mary Wortley Montagu: General notions are...

Mary Wortley Montagu: General notions are...

General notions are generally wrong.

Source: From an Internet collection of...

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