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Raquel Welch: Change excites me....

Raquel Welch: Change excites me....

Change excites me. I am fifty years old. It's when the mind catches up with the body.

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Billie Holiday: I'm always making...

Billie Holiday: I'm always making...

I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Source: In...

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Joni Mitchell: You know that...

Joni Mitchell: You know that...

You know that it never has been easy
Whether you do or do not resign
Whether you travel the breadth of the...

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Oprah Winfrey: My idea of...

Oprah Winfrey: My idea of...

My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.

Source:...

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Pat Nixon: I would feel...

Pat Nixon: I would feel...

I would feel sorry for her if she did.

Source: On whether she would want her...

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Dorothy Thompson: The instinct to...

Dorothy Thompson: The instinct to...

The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat.

Source: In...

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Shana Alexander: Ballet's image of...

Shana Alexander: Ballet's image of...

Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and...

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Gloria Evangelina Anzaldua: What we say...

Gloria Evangelina Anzaldua: What we say...

What we say and what we do ultimately comes back to us so let us own our responsibility, place it in our hands and...

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Lady Marguerite Blessington: The vices of...

Lady Marguerite Blessington: The vices of...

The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for errors; and those of the poor and lowly, for...

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Harriet Lerner: We commonly confuse...

Harriet Lerner: We commonly confuse...

We commonly confuse closeness with sameness and view intimacy as the merging of two separate I's into one...

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Irene Peter: Life is entirely...

Irene Peter: Life is entirely...

Life is entirely too time-consuming.

Source:
-- Irene Peter, (Jan 0 0-0), US...

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Irene Peter: Always be sincere,...

Irene Peter: Always be sincere,...

Always be sincere, even when you don't mean it.

Source: In Quote Disk 1,2,3, by ...

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Ann Oakley: Clearly, society has...

Ann Oakley: Clearly, society has...

Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the...

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Naomi Wolf: The more legal...

Naomi Wolf: The more legal...

The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of...

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Minna Thomas Antrim: To control a...

Minna Thomas Antrim: To control a...

To control a man a woman must first control herself.

Source: Naked Truth & Veiled...

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Helen Keller: Character cannot be...

Helen Keller: Character cannot be...

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be...

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Dorothy Parker: Scratch a lover,...

Dorothy Parker: Scratch a lover,...

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Source: Ballade of a Great Weariness, Enough Rope,...

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Harriet Van Horne: Rarely in broadcasting...

Harriet Van Horne: Rarely in broadcasting...

Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand...

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Peace Pilgrim: We have all...

Peace Pilgrim: We have all...

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Source: In The...

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Andrea Dworkin: Seduction is often...

Andrea Dworkin: Seduction is often...

Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of...

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