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Ingrid Bengis: For me words...

Ingrid Bengis: For me words...

For me words are a form of action, capable of influencing change. Their articulation represents a complete, live...

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Andrea Dworkin: Being a Jew,...

Andrea Dworkin: Being a Jew,...

Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human...

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Emily Dickinson: There's a certain...

Emily Dickinson: There's a certain...

There's a certain slant of light,
On winter afternoons,
That oppresses, like the weight
Of Cathedral...

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Emily Dickinson: His Labor is...

Emily Dickinson: His Labor is...

His Labor is a Chant --
His Idleness --a Tune --
Oh, for a Bee's experience
Of Clovers, and of...

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Emily Dickinson: I felt it...

Emily Dickinson: I felt it...

I felt it shelter to speak to you.

Source: Letter, 1878; in Letters of Emily...

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Beah Richards: Heaven and earth!...

Beah Richards: Heaven and earth!...

Heaven and earth! How is it that bodies join but never meet?

Source: It's Time for...

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Beah Richards: Race, what is...

Beah Richards: Race, what is...

Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. . . .Blood doesn't run in races! ...

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Emily Dickinson: How much can...

Emily Dickinson: How much can...

How much can come
And much can go,
And yet abide the world!


Source: There...

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Emily Dickinson: I took one...

Emily Dickinson: I took one...

I took one Draught of Life --
I'll tell you what I paid --
Precisely an existence --
The market price, they...

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Emily Dickinson: We must be...

Emily Dickinson: We must be...

We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.

Source: Letter, 1874; in...

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Emily Dickinson: I never saw...

Emily Dickinson: I never saw...

I never saw a moor,
I never saw the sea;
Yet know I how the heather looks,
And what a wave must...

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Emily Dickinson: Truth is so...

Emily Dickinson: Truth is so...

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Emily Dickinson: Will you tell...

Emily Dickinson: Will you tell...

Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call the surgeon to...

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Tallulah Bankhead: It's the good...

Tallulah Bankhead: It's the good...

It's the good girls who keep the diaries; the bad girls never have the time.

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Rita Mae Brown: I believe you...

Rita Mae Brown: I believe you...

I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten...

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Grace Metalious: I looked into...

Grace Metalious: I looked into...

I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself.

Source: On her bout with...

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Grace Metalious: I'm a lousy...

Grace Metalious: I'm a lousy...

I'm a lousy writer; a helluva lot of people have got lousy taste.

Source: In W.O.W....

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George Eliot: It is possible...

George Eliot: It is possible...

It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the...

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George Eliot: We want people...

George Eliot: We want people...

We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.

Source: George Eliot's Life...

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George Eliot: There is much...

George Eliot: There is much...

There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the...

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