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Erma Bombeck: You hear a...

Erma Bombeck: You hear a...

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big...

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Susan Sontag: Intelligence is really...

Susan Sontag: Intelligence is really...

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Source: On Photography, In...

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Susan Sontag: What pornographic literature...

Susan Sontag: What pornographic literature...

What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a full human being and...

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Susan Sontag: With more people,...

Susan Sontag: With more people,...

With more people, there are more voices to tune out.

Source: In Webster's...

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Helen Rowland: To be happy...

Helen Rowland: To be happy...

To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love...

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Simone de Beauvoir: There is no...

Simone de Beauvoir: There is no...

There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open...

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Helen Keller: I can see,...

Helen Keller: I can see,...

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made...

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Susan B Anthony: Cautious, careful people,...

Susan B Anthony: Cautious, careful people,...

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations . . . can never effect a...

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Andrea Dworkin: Men renounce whatever...

Andrea Dworkin: Men renounce whatever...

Men renounce whatever they have in common with women so as to experience no commonality with women; and what is left,...

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Helen Hunt Jackson: Who longest waits...

Helen Hunt Jackson: Who longest waits...

Who longest waits most surely wins.

Source: In The Book of Positive Quotations, by...

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Rita Mae Brown: You sell a...

Rita Mae Brown: You sell a...

You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.

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George Eliot: There are glances...

George Eliot: There are glances...

There are glances of hatred that stab, and raise no cry of murder.

Source: Felix...

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Mary Wortley Montagu: We are educated...

Mary Wortley Montagu: We are educated...

We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above...

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Barbara Cartland: The right diet...

Barbara Cartland: The right diet...

The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.

Source: In...

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George Eliot: But that intimacy...

George Eliot: But that intimacy...

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once...

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George Eliot: Friendships begin with...

George Eliot: Friendships begin with...

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude roots that can be pulled up.

Source: In...

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George Eliot: Hatred is like...

George Eliot: Hatred is like...

Hatred is like fire; it makes even light rubbish deadly.

Source: In Webster's...

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George Eliot: I'm proof against...

George Eliot: I'm proof against...

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving...

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George Eliot: Opposition may become...

George Eliot: Opposition may become...

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

Source:...

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Jane Austen: Happiness in marriage...

Jane Austen: Happiness in marriage...

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

Source: Pride & Prejudice/...

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