It is much more exquisite to be blown from the tree as a flower than to be shaken down as a shriveled and bitter fruit.
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Love is a great beautifier.--Louisa May Alcott
The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.--Minna Antrim
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.--Hannah Arendt
The shadow of fear and uncertainty lies over most of us; for us the future seems far from being as clear and open as we believed it would be.--Faith Baldwin
Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.--Djuna Barnes
What we suffer, what we endure, what we muff, what we kill, what we miss, what we are guilty of, is done by us, as individuals, in private.--Louise Bogan
Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.--Fawn Brodie
When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.--Pearl Buck
It is not always wise to appear singular.--Taylor Caldwell
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family -- but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.--Willa Cather
Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.--Lydia Child
There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.--Kate Chopin
Drying a widow's tears is one of the most dangerous occupations known to man.--Dorothy Dix
I think that in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion.--Edna Ferber
There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.--Margaret Fuller
Loving, like prayer, is a power as well as a process. It's curative. It is creative.--Zona Gale
It took nine years, and a great depression, and two wars ending in defeat, and one surrender without war, to break my faith in the benign power of the press. Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.--Martha Gellhorn
Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion.--Ellen Glasgow
Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.--Edith Hamilton
If I had to give young writers advice, I'd say don't listen to writers talking about writing.--Lillian Hellman
Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last.--Helen Hunt Jackson
The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back.--Sarah Orne Jewett
I always say that a girl never really looks as well as she does on board a steamship, or even a yacht.--Anita Loos
Women can't have an honest exchange in front of men without having it called a cat fight.--Clare Boothe Luce
In violence we forget who we are.--Mary McCarthy
There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.--Carson McCullers
Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a man's. It is in the boys' gyms, the college fraternity houses, the club locker rooms, the paneled offices of business that gossip reaches its luxuriant flower.--Phyllis McGinley
Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.--Edna St. Vincent Millay
Humor saves a few steps, it saves years.--Marianne Moore
From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five, a woman needs personality. And from fifty-five on, the old lady needs cash.--Kathleen Norris
The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.--Flannery O'Connor
I require only three things of a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.--Dorothy Parker
Widow. The word consumes itself.--Sylvia Plath
I think I've only spent about ten percent of my energies on writing. The other ninety percent went to keeping my head above water.--Katherine Anne Porter
A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one.--Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.--Agnes Repplier
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.--Helen Rowland
Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.--Anne Sexton
A diary means yes indeed.--Gertrude Stein
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.--Harriet Beecher Stowe
Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.--Jessamyn West
Life is either always a tight-rope or a feather bed. Give me the tight-rope.--Edith Wharton
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