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961 Her Own quotes by 716 unique authors
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One of the best things I’ve read about that inexplicably, but endlessly, fascinating group of people, the so-called Serious Collectors of 78s. Petrusich burrows into…
— John Jeremiah Sullivan
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The art of never making a mistake is crucial to motherhood. To be effective and to gain the respect she needs to function, a mother…
— Erma Bombeck
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Today I personally believe that while Jesus came to open the door to God's house, all human beings can walk through that door, whether they…
— Henri Nouwen
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After all, a beautiful woman without a mind of her own leaves her lover with no resource after he had physically enjoyed her charms.
— Giacomo Casanova
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One of the tragic ironies of history is that such original and creative geniuses as Buddha and Jesus have been extolled as perfect patterns for…
— Sophia Lyon Fahs
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Anna Journey, in her new book of poems, Vulgar Remedies, creates an alchemical self whose shimmering limbic / alembic lyrics distill the mysterious terrors of…
— Carol Muske-Dukes
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Morley is one of the outstanding voices of her generation, as a singer, songwriter and bandleader she's in a class of her own, transcends all…
— David Amram
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If they are unsuccessful in married life, who suffers more the bitter consequences of poverty than the wife? But if successful, she has not a…
— Ernestine Rose
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A #GIRLBOSS is in charge of her own life. She gets what she wants because she works for it.
— Sophia Amoruso
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The Dream Lover is a historical novel at once expansively researched yet intimately imagined. George Sand may be the ultimate Berg heroine. 'A life not…
— Leah Hager Cohen
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Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: as 'art for art's sake' it is unthinkable. A man may sing in his bath every morning without the…
— Andre Simon
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Just as every girl should have a husband, preferably her own, so every culture must have its state, preferably its own.
— Ernest Gellner
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Is O used by René and Sir Stephen, or does she in fact use them, and...all those irons and chains and obligatory debauchery, to fulfill…
— Anne Desclos
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So young a child ought to know which way she's going, even if she doesn't know her own name!
— Lewis Carroll
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So this judge in Virginia rules that a lesbian wasn't fit to raise her own daughter because she might grow up to be a lesbian,…
— Chris Cannon
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To paraphrase the Bible, what shall it profit a man (or a woman) who gains the whole world but loses his or her own family?
— Billy Graham
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In her own special category, she was quite beautiful. This was the category of all the women, in his entire life, who had ever thought…
— Terry Pratchett
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...that was the first thing I had to learn about her, and maybe the hardest I've ever learned about anything - that she is her…
— Barbara Hambly
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Marriage has become a battlefield where two persons are fighting for supremacy. Of course, the man has his own way: rough and more primitive. The…
— Rajneesh
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Unfortunately for ethical egoism, the claim that we will all be better off if every one of us does what is in his or her…
— Peter Singer
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No living creature, not even man, has achieved, in the centre of his sphere, what the bee has achieved in her own: and were some…
— Maurice Maeterlinck
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A leader’s most powerful ally is his or her own example.
— John Wooden
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My mother used to go out on her own, and I used to have to keep a look out for my stepfather coming home.
— Christine Keeler
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Though my mom had too many of her own dreams denied, deferred and destroyed, she instilled in me that I could have dreams. And not…
— Chris Gardner
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The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it. Teaching may…
— Jacques Barzun
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