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“One night at a tavern in Virginia’s Greenbrier County, a traveler watched as a group of traders put a coffle of people… — Edward E. Baptist Copy Share Image
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“I aim to take possession of this estate,” the young woman continued. “With the money you’ve given me, I’ll start a school—a… — Zoe Archer Copy Share Image
She moved from being a young woman into having the angular look of a queen, someone who has made her face with… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“Later, when she sees the photographs for the first time, she will be surprised at how calm her face looks - how… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
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“Our fascination with the gothic peaks in times of anxiety, panic, and upheaval. The Victorian gothic revival of the 1890s was stoked… — Carina Chocano Copy Share Image
“ In A.D. 1223 an infant was born, clutching a jewel in her tiny fist. Her peasant father ran to the castle… — Lynne Ewing Copy Share Image
“Forget about the scant hours in her brief life when Sylvia Plath was able to produce the works in Ariel. Forget about… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“When I was a young woman with four children, I was always living ahead of myself,” she said. “Everything I was doing… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“Darona’s face bore the pinched, taut look and shadowed eyes of someone constantly in pain, but the lack of lines suggested she… — Helen Bell Copy Share Image
“This consideration takes us very close to what it is that makes Greek tragedy “tragic.” A play about an unambiguously heroic young… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
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“Ah yes, the people concerned. That is very important. You remember, perhaps, who they were?’ Depleach considered. ‘Let me see-it’s a long… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Well,’ you may ask, ‘how may I know when I am in love?’ . . . George Q. Morris [who later became… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
“Outwardly I was a young woman who was comfortable with herself. Yet ever so slowly these actions that I knew deep down… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Ewan felt a searing stab of guilt. He'd taken an exquisite, laughing young woman away from the London ballrooms that were her… — Eloisa James Copy Share Image
“That ridiculous little performance of yours should not have worked,” Jackaby said. “You don’t have to tell me that.” I glanced back… — William Ritter Copy Share Image
“It is not then the existence or the non-existence, of the persons that I trouble myself about; it is the fable of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“They say a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. I took mine and fell flat on my face.… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
Right now, women's worth is being quantified by how they look and their Instagrams and likes. That's all so self-created, so why… — Jennifer Aniston Copy Share Image
Contrary to what you may think, an immoral act of any kind will only lower your self-esteem. Be true to yourselves, and… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Celia [Brady] is a young woman who, you know, she's still got that fresh young vibe about her but at the same… — Lily Collins Copy Share Image
But when I realized it was actually going to be this portrait of the artist, birth to death, I had to then… — Danielle Dutton Copy Share Image
“That was what a young woman was for. You seduced a young woman in order to be able to finish your talks… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
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“watch the people I pass—the two men running, backpacks on, training for the marathon, the young woman in a black skirt and… — Paula Hawkins Copy Share Image
Who knows what exactly changed Tom Cotton's mind. I mean, maybe it was that woman who said her husband was dying and… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
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She remembered that once, when she was a little girl, she had seen a pretty young woman with golden hair down to… — Regina Doman Copy Share Image
“…there are simply no words that would be worthy of describing their encounter. And if any narrator ever tries to come up… — Stevan V. Nikolic Copy Share Image
“FRENCH CINEMA’S PORTRAITS of the young woman on her own constitute a strong and enriching strain in recent decades. Some of these… — Mick LaSalle Copy Share Image
“Over the years, I’ve hired and promoted a lot of young women and young men. Much of the time, this is how… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
“At last, the details finally settled, Abbey found herself coming to terms with the inevitable: the whole lot of them would go… — Emily Ann Benedict Copy Share Image
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“It does seem true that a young woman may sometimes behave in a way that can be called titillating, and that men… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
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