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Leontyne Price: Art is the...

Leontyne Price: Art is the...

Art is the only thing you cannot punch a button for. You must do it the old-fashioned way. Stay up and really burn the...

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Joan Rivers: I succeeded by...

Joan Rivers: I succeeded by...

I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.

Source: In An Uncommon Scold,...

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Joan Rivers: After we made...

Joan Rivers: After we made...

After we made love he took a piece of chalk and made an outline of my body.

Source:...

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Rita Rudner: My mother buried...

Rita Rudner: My mother buried...

My mother buried three husbands . . . and two of them were only napping.

Source:...

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Hedda Hopper: In Hollywood gratitude...

Hedda Hopper: In Hollywood gratitude...

In Hollywood gratitude is Public Enemy Number One.

Source: From Under My Hat,...

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Gwendolyn Brooks: Poetry is life...

Gwendolyn Brooks: Poetry is life...

Poetry is life distilled.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection,...

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Alice Duer Miller: They make other...

Alice Duer Miller: They make other...

They make other nations seem pale and flighty,
But they do think England is God almighty,
And you must remind...

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Joanna Baillie: I have seen...

Joanna Baillie: I have seen...

I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is...

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Adrienne Rich: There is the...

Adrienne Rich: There is the...

There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal...

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Adrienne Rich: It's exhilarating...

Adrienne Rich: It's exhilarating...

It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and...

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Adrienne Rich: Re-vision -- the...

Adrienne Rich: Re-vision -- the...

Re-vision -- the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction...

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Margot Asquith: Symbols are the...

Margot Asquith: Symbols are the...

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

Source: More or Less about Myself,...

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Erica Jong: It is for...

Erica Jong: It is for...

It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I...

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Erica Jong: No one ever...

Erica Jong: No one ever...

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the...

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Vicki Baum: What I like...

Vicki Baum: What I like...

What I like about Hollywood is that one can get along by knowing two words of English -- SWELL and...

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Helene Deutsch: All observations point...

Helene Deutsch: All observations point...

All observations point to the fact that the intellectual woman is masculinized; in her, warm, intuitive knowledge has...

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bell hooks: The academy is...

bell hooks: The academy is...

The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.

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George Eliot: A difference of...

George Eliot: A difference of...

A difference of tastes in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Source: Daniel...

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Dinah Mulock Craik: It seems as...

Dinah Mulock Craik: It seems as...

It seems as if she had given these treasures and left him alone -- to use them, or lose them, apply them, or misapply...

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Nadine Gordimer: The creative act...

Nadine Gordimer: The creative act...

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read...

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