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Paule Marshall: A person can...

Paule Marshall: A person can...

A person can run for years but sooner or later he has to take a stand in the place which, for better or worse, he...

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Gertrude Stein: Nature is commonplace....

Gertrude Stein: Nature is commonplace....

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

Source: In My Autobiography,...

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Dorothy L Sayers: There certainly does...

Dorothy L Sayers: There certainly does...

There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will...

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Dorothy Gilman: The best things...

Dorothy Gilman: The best things...

The best things arrive on time.

Source: A New Kind of Country, 1978.
-- Dorothy...

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Margaret Halsey: Bulldogs have been...

Margaret Halsey: Bulldogs have been...

Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.

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Eleanor Roosevelt: It takes as...

Eleanor Roosevelt: It takes as...

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Edith Clara Summerskill: Today, literate people...

Edith Clara Summerskill: Today, literate people...

Today, literate people of the space age, in well-populated countries, are not prepared to accept taboos without...

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Christina of Sweden: Nuns and married...

Christina of Sweden: Nuns and married...

Nuns and married women are equally unhappy, if in different ways.

Source: Maxims,...

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Jane Austen: All the privilege...

Jane Austen: All the privilege...

All the privilege I claim for my own sex . . . is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is...

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Susan Warner: Well, we're all...

Susan Warner: Well, we're all...

Well, we're all somebody, of course, in one sense. Of course we're not nobody.''
I am not so sure what you think...

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Dorothy Parker: They sicken of...

Dorothy Parker: They sicken of...

They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.

Source: Fair Weather, Sunset Gun,...

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Dorothy Parker: I had been...

Dorothy Parker: I had been...

I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives' tales about the way men would instantly forsake a beautiful woman to...

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Peg Bracken: The fact is,...

Peg Bracken: The fact is,...

The fact is, the cocktail party has much in its favor. Going to one is a good way of indicating that you're still...

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Maya Angelou: If one is...

Maya Angelou: If one is...

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

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Anna Jameson: All my experience...

Anna Jameson: All my experience...

All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a...

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Eileen Caddy: Set your sights...

Eileen Caddy: Set your sights...

Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right...

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Anne Frank: Think of all...

Anne Frank: Think of all...

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Source: Diary of a...

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Anne Frank: And finally I...

Anne Frank: And finally I...

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on...

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Mary Church Terrell: [T]he chasm between...

Mary Church Terrell: [T]he chasm between...

[T]he chasm between the principles upon which this Government was founded, in which it still professes to believe, and...

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Olympia Brown: The Old Testament...

Olympia Brown: The Old Testament...

The Old Testament teems with prophecies of the Messiah, but nowhere is it intimated that that Messiah is to stand as a...

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