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Edith Wharton: In any really...

Edith Wharton: In any really...

In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.

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Rita Mae Brown: I am a...

Rita Mae Brown: I am a...

I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.

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Rita Mae Brown: The statistics on...

Rita Mae Brown: The statistics on...

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think...

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Helen Rowland: A wise woman...

Helen Rowland: A wise woman...

A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he...

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Liz Carpenter: A major advantage...

Liz Carpenter: A major advantage...

A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.

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Virgilia Peterson: Perhaps it is...

Virgilia Peterson: Perhaps it is...

Perhaps it is the expediency in the political eye that blinds it.

Source: A Matter...

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Rebecca Harding Davis: Reform is born...

Rebecca Harding Davis: Reform is born...

Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented,...

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Helen Keller: My darkness has...

Helen Keller: My darkness has...

My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and...

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Helen Keller: The welfare of...

Helen Keller: The welfare of...

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Helen Keller: There is much...

Helen Keller: There is much...

There is much in the Bible against which every instinct of my being rebels, so much that I regret the necessity which...

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Dorothy Parker: It's not the...

Dorothy Parker: It's not the...

It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes.

Source: In Interview in...

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Dorothy Parker: There was never...

Dorothy Parker: There was never...

There was never a place for her in the ranks of the terrible, slow army of the cautious. She ran ahead, where there...

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Dorothy Parker: Somebody was using...

Dorothy Parker: Somebody was using...

Somebody was using the pencil.

Source: On why she missed a in New Yorker, deadline;...

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Susan Sontag: Detachment is the...

Susan Sontag: Detachment is the...

Detachment is the prerogative of an elite; and as the dandy is the nineteenth century's surrogate for the aristocrat...

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Rebecca Harding Davis: One sees that...

Rebecca Harding Davis: One sees that...

One sees that dead, vacant look steal over the rarest, finest of women's faces . . . in the very midst, it may be, of...

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Fran Lebowitz: Do not allow...

Fran Lebowitz: Do not allow...

Do not allow children to mix drinks. It is unseemly and they use too much vermouth.

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Fran Lebowitz: If you are...

Fran Lebowitz: If you are...

If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget...

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Erma Bombeck: I take a...

Erma Bombeck: I take a...

I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: Checkout Time is 18...

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Hortense Calisher: When anything gets...

Hortense Calisher: When anything gets...

When anything gets freed, a zest goes round the world.

Source: Herself, Pt. IV,...

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Emily Dickinson: If I can...

Emily Dickinson: If I can...

If I can stop one Heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain
If I can ease one Life the Aching
Or cool one...

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