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Naomi Weisstein: It's as if...

Naomi Weisstein: It's as if...

It's as if we women are in a totally rigged race. A lot of men are driving souped-up low slung racing cars, and we're...

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August Wilson: The harder you...

August Wilson: The harder you...

The harder you try to hold onto them, the easier it is for some gal to pull them away.

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The essence of...

The essence of...

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

Source: In Time, 19...

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The news is...

The news is...

The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new...

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Gossip is when...

Gossip is when...

Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.

Source: In...

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Louise Erdrich: For a short...

Louise Erdrich: For a short...

For a short while, our mothers bodies are the boundaries and personal geography which are all that we know of the...

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Evelyn Waugh: I haven't been...

Evelyn Waugh: I haven't been...

I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't...

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Benjamin Franklin: He was so...

Benjamin Franklin: He was so...

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride...

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Edward Albee: The thing that...

Edward Albee: The thing that...

The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.

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Marcel Proust: We do not...

Marcel Proust: We do not...

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire...

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Anne Sullivan: My heart is...

Anne Sullivan: My heart is...

My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little...

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Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: Women are systematically...

Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: Women are systematically...

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex,...

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Barbara Hepworth: I must always...

Barbara Hepworth: I must always...

I must always have a clear image of the form of a work before I begin. Otherwise there is no impulse to...

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Martin Delany: Our elevation must...

Martin Delany: Our elevation must...

Our elevation must be the result of self-efforts and work of our own hands. No other human power can accomplish it. If...

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Anne Sullivan: Keep on beginning...

Anne Sullivan: Keep on beginning...

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have...

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Evelyn Waugh: We schoolmasters must...

Evelyn Waugh: We schoolmasters must...

We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.

Source: Dr. Fagan, in Decline...

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Isaac Newton: Every body continues...

Isaac Newton: Every body continues...

Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right [straight] line, unless it is compelled to...

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Margaret Atwood: Canada was built...

Margaret Atwood: Canada was built...

Canada was built on dead beavers.

Source: National Public Radio Interview/...

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If a woman...

If a woman...

If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's...

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Alexander Fleming: It is the...

Alexander Fleming: It is the...

It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject; the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime...

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