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- I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.
Gilda Radner
- I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.
Gilda Radner
- I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there.
Maureen Reagan
- Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply dosen't know art.
Wynetka Ann Reynolds
- Lying is done with words and also with silence.
Adrienne Rich
- Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.
Ann Richards
- Oh, to be only half as wonderful as my child thought I was when he was small, and only half as stupid as my teenager now thinks I am.
Rebecca Richards
- All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
Sally Ride
- You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
- Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt
- I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiousity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Eleanor Roosevelt
- If my husband ever met a woman on the street who looked like one of his paintings he would faint.
Jacqueline Roque, wife of Pable Picasso
- Before a marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you've said; after marriage, he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
Helen Rowland
- A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
Helen Rowland
- Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
Rita Rudner
- The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
Muriel Rukeyser
- Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.
Rosiland Russel
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- Human successes, like human failures, are composed of one action at a time and achieved by one person at a time.
Patsy H. Sampson
- There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
George Sand
- It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
Anne Sexton
- Getting to the top isn't bad, and it's probably best done as an afterthought.
Anne Wilson Shaef
- In great moments life seems neither right nor wrong, but something greater, it seems inevitable.
Margaret Sherwood
- You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Beverly Sills
- I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric ell set in a pond of goldfish.
Dame Edith Sitwell
- No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it.
Grace Slick
- Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
Susan Sontag
- Sanity is a cozy lie.
Susan Sontag
- Social science affirms that a woman's place in society marks the level of civilization.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.
Barbara Stanwyck
- Love is the emplem of eternity; it confounds all notions of time; effaces all memory of begining, all fear of an end.
Madame de Stael
- When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
Gertrude Stein
- Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
Gladys Browyn Stern
- You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.
Meryl Streep
- Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Muriel Strode
- The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.
Annie Sullivan
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- No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.
Sara Teasdale
- Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
Mother Teresa
- Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
Mother Teresa
- Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.
Mother Teresa
- You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Margaret Thatcher
- There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.
Margaret Thatcher
- Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a sense of purpose.
Margaret Thatcher
- No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions -- he had money, too.
Margaret Thatcher
- If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
Margaret Thatcher
- Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
Margaret Thatcher
- Never face facts; if you do you'll never get up in the morning.
Marlo Thomas
- Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
Lily Tomlin
- Why is it when we talk to God we're said to be praying, but when God talks to us we're scizophrenic?
Lily Tomlin
- War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
Barbara Tuchman
- I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better.
Sophie Tucker
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- People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
Abigail Van Buren
- Do you want to trace your family tree? Run for public office.
Patricia H. Vance
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- A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?
Jane Wagner
- I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.
Jane Wagner
- No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Alice Walker
- Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
Alice Walker
- Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna -- or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.
Barbara Walters
- A friend is one who knows all about you and likes you anyway.
Christi Mary Warner
- Years ago fairy tales all began with "Once upon a time...", now we know they all begin with, "If I am elected..."
Carolyn Warner
- The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.
Martha Washington
- The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.
Faye Wattleton
- The arts are the rain forests of society. They produce the oxygen of freedom, and they are the early warning system when freedom is in danger.
June Wayne
- What you teach your own children is what you really believe in.
Cathy Warner Weatherford
- It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
Jessamyn West
- Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.
Jessamyn West
- We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.
Jessamyn West
- The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.
Dame Rebecca West
- Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
Dame Rebecca West
- Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
Edith Wharton
- The best way for children to learn about money is for you not to have any.
Katherine Whitehorn
- Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels.
Faith Whittlesey
- Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.
Colleen Wilcox
- In advertising terms an intellectual is anybody who reads a morning newspaper.
Anna-MAria Winchester
- You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victems.
Harriet Woods
- The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget
of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the
mantlepiece forever.
Virginia Woolfe
- If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
Virginia Woolfe
- Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Virginia Woolfe
- Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart,
and his friends can only read the title.
Virginia Woolf
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