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Djuna Barnes: Time is a...

Djuna Barnes: Time is a...

Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg...

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Willa Cather: Winter lies too...

Willa Cather: Winter lies too...

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and...

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Judy Blume: Let children read...

Judy Blume: Let children read...

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't...

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Gayl Jones: I believe that...

Gayl Jones: I believe that...

I believe that all literatures can have political uses and misuses. Sometimes politics can enhance, sometimes it can...

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Anne Sophie Swetchine: In this world...

Anne Sophie Swetchine: In this world...

In this world of change, nothing which comes stays, and nothing which goes is lost.

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Erica Jong: I have accepted...

Erica Jong: I have accepted...

I have accepted fear as a part of life -- specifically the fear of change. . . . I have gone ahead despite the...

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Louisa May Alcott: It takes very...

Louisa May Alcott: It takes very...

It takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real...

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Harper Lee: Never, never, never,...

Harper Lee: Never, never, never,...

Never, never, never, on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer to . . . . Do it,...

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Emily Bronte: I'll walk where...

Emily Bronte: I'll walk where...

I'll walk where my own nature would be leading-
It vexes me to choose another guide.


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George Eliot: What a wretched...

George Eliot: What a wretched...

What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind --the uglier we get in the eyes of...

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Jane Austen: If it was...

Jane Austen: If it was...

'If it was not for the entail I should not mind it.' `What should not you mind?' `I should not mind anything at all.'...

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Gloria Naylor: It's as if...

Gloria Naylor: It's as if...

It's as if I've arrived in a place where it's all spirit and no body -- an overwhelming sense of calm . . . I actually...

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Gloria Naylor: The last time...

Gloria Naylor: The last time...

The last time you're doing something -- knowing you're doing it for the last -- makes it even more alive than the...

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Marguerite Duras: Before they're plumbers...

Marguerite Duras: Before they're plumbers...

Before they're plumbers or writers or taxi drivers or unemployed or journalists, men are men. Whether heterosexual or...

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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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Alice Walker: God is inside...

Alice Walker: God is inside...

God is inside you and inside everybody else. But only them that search for it inside find it. And sometimes it just...

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Anzia Yezierska: In America, money...

Anzia Yezierska: In America, money...

In America, money takes the place of God.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for...

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Eleanor Roosevelt: The future belongs...

Eleanor Roosevelt: The future belongs...

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Source: In...

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Elizabeth Dole: We have learned...

Elizabeth Dole: We have learned...

We have learned that power is a positive force if it is used for positive purposes.

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Patricia Schroeder: Many women have...

Patricia Schroeder: Many women have...

Many women have more power than they recognize, and they're very hesitant to use it, for they fear they won't be...

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