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Dorothy Uhnak: I like to...

Dorothy Uhnak: I like to...

I like to deliver more than I promise instead of the other way around. Which is just one of my many trade...

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Gloria Evangelina Anzaldua: The world I...

Gloria Evangelina Anzaldua: The world I...

The world I create in the writing compensates for what the real world does not give me.

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Margaret Oliphant: As for pictures...

Margaret Oliphant: As for pictures...

As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at...

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Marsha Sinetar: Change can either...

Marsha Sinetar: Change can either...

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block...

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Rose Kennedy: I looked on...

Rose Kennedy: I looked on...

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and...

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Agnes Repplier: It is impossible...

Agnes Repplier: It is impossible...

It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the...

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Jean Kerr: Do you know...

Jean Kerr: Do you know...

Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to...

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Phyllis Battelle: Fame is an...

Phyllis Battelle: Fame is an...

Fame is an ego-building but back-breaking state of being which -- rather like love -- is most comfortable in private,...

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Joan Konner: Journalism has always...

Joan Konner: Journalism has always...

Journalism has always existed in two different realities . . . the economic marketplace and [the] special institution...

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Anne Frank: Whoever is happy...

Anne Frank: Whoever is happy...

Whoever is happy will make others happy, too.

Source: The Diary of a Young Girl,...

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Helen Lawrenson: [Their] uniformity of...

Helen Lawrenson: [Their] uniformity of...

[Their] uniformity of appearance is frequently a triumph of modern science, thanks to which they can be equipped with...

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Agnes Repplier: Like simplicity and...

Agnes Repplier: Like simplicity and...

Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face,...

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Jean Kerr: The average, healthy,...

Jean Kerr: The average, healthy,...

The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain...

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Janet Flanner: By jove, no...

Janet Flanner: By jove, no...

By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer...

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Adela Rogers St Johns: I think every...

Adela Rogers St Johns: I think every...

I think every woman's entitled to a middle husband she can forget.

Source: Quoted...

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Adela Rogers St Johns: There is so...

Adela Rogers St Johns: There is so...

There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first.

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Erma Bombeck: Good kids are...

Erma Bombeck: Good kids are...

Good kids are like sunsets. We take them for granted. Every evening they disappear. Most parents never imagine how...

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Dorothy Day: Tradition! We scarcely...

Dorothy Day: Tradition! We scarcely...

Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them....

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Laura Ingalls Wilder: I believe we...

Laura Ingalls Wilder: I believe we...

I believe we would be happier to have a personal revolution in our individual lives and go back to simpler living and...

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Barbara Sher: You can learn...

Barbara Sher: You can learn...

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like...

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