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Susan Sontag: Camp is a...

Susan Sontag: Camp is a...

Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style but a particular style. It is the love of the...

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Rebecca West: Everyone realizes that...

Rebecca West: Everyone realizes that...

Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized...

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Amelia Barr: Events that are...

Amelia Barr: Events that are...

Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we...

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Helen Keller: Never bend your...

Helen Keller: Never bend your...

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

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Martha Beck: Whoever said love...

Martha Beck: Whoever said love...

Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest...

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Meg Greenfield: Everybody's for democracy...

Meg Greenfield: Everybody's for democracy...

Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff...

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Fran Lebowitz: Polite conversation is...

Fran Lebowitz: Polite conversation is...

Polite conversation is rarely either.

Source: Social Studies, 1977
-- Fran...

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Mary Ashton Livermore: For humanity has...

Mary Ashton Livermore: For humanity has...

For humanity has moved forward to an era when wrong and slavery are being displaced, and reason and justice are being...

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Peace Pilgrim: The valid research...

Peace Pilgrim: The valid research...

The valid research for the future is on the inner side, on the spiritual side.

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Harriet Tubman: We saw the...

Harriet Tubman: We saw the...

We saw the lightning and that was the guns and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard...

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Katharine Hepburn: Without discipline, there's...

Katharine Hepburn: Without discipline, there's...

Without discipline, there's no life at all.

Source: The Dick Cavett Show -- ABC,...

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Sandra Bernhard: A remembrance can...

Sandra Bernhard: A remembrance can...

A remembrance can mean nothing to the one remembered; it can only remind the ones left behind how little they did...

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Edna St Vincent Millay: The soul can...

Edna St Vincent Millay: The soul can...

The soul can split the sky in two,
And let the face of God shine through.


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Vita Sackville-West: It is necessary...

Vita Sackville-West: It is necessary...

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly...

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Lorraine Hansberry: The thing that...

Lorraine Hansberry: The thing that...

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you...

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Emma Lazarus: Here at our...

Emma Lazarus: Here at our...

Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned...

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Grandma Moses: Life is what...

Grandma Moses: Life is what...

Life is what we make it; always has been, always will be.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Diane Arbus: Most people go...

Diane Arbus: Most people go...

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks are born with their trauma. They've...

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Mary Kay Ash: Sandwich every bit...

Mary Kay Ash: Sandwich every bit...

Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise.

Source: In The...

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Kathy Ireland: Beauty comes...

Kathy Ireland: Beauty comes...

Beauty comes in all ages, colors, shapes, and forms. God never makes junk

Source:...

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