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JUDITH FLANDERS On the one hand, shopping is dependable: You can do it alone, if you lose your heart to something th... JUDITH KRANTZ What restricts the use of the word 'lady' among the courteous is that it is intended to set a woman ... JUDITH MARTIN A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful. JUDITH MARTIN There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart JUDITH ANDERSON No letter from a lover is ever more welcome, brings more joy, than a publisher's expression of inter... JUDITH BROCKLEHURST A young lady who faints may awake chivalrous sentiments in gentleman; a young lady who weeps engende... JUDITH BROCKLEHURST The biblical account of Noah's Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundament... JUDITH HAYES We are all born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participa... JUDITH MARTIN What you have when everyone wears the same playclothes for all occasions, is addressad by nickname, ... JUDITH MARTIN There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class. JUDITH MARTIN It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help. JUDITH MARTIN One of the things that made Epic strong when I wrote the original code was that it never occurred to... JUDITH FAULKNER The more facts one introduces, the more truth one shows, the more determined the bigot is to cling t... JUDITH TARR You are about to begin the hero's journey. Travel well on the quest. A life of More is your birthrig... JUDITH WRIGHT He had led off being a perfectionist when he discovered that not promptly kept appointments, not a h... JUDITH GUEST The great thing about costume jewelry is that there's something for everyone - there are very hu... JUDITH MILLER I would say that I'm a feminist theorist before I'm a queer theorist or a gay and lesbian th... JUDITH BUTLER Sexual harassment law is very important. But I think it would be a mistake if the sexual harassment ... JUDITH BUTLER Rawn did her own thing in her own way. She cast the female gaze on a genre heavy with all-male quest... JUDITH TARR It frustrates me about myself when I see I'm not taking the road that demands more of me. JUDITH LIGHT It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help. JUDITH MARTIN My Girl Scout leader. She told me if I listened more and talked less, I could grow up to be a good w... JUDITH VIORST I was an undergrad math major and a grad student in computer science. I'm hugely introverted, no... JUDITH FAULKNER As we get past our superficial material wants and instant gratification we connect to a deeper part ... JUDITH WRIGHT Maybe it's a generational thing, but I never wanted to be the best black dancer in the world. I ... JUDITH JAMISON I heard directly from my source that I should testify before the grand jury, JUDITH MILLER Obama's failure to close Guantanamo is yet another instance where the rhetoric of democratic and... JUDITH BUTLER Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You... JUDITH MARTIN I got that experience through dating dozens of men for six years after college, getting an entry lev... JUDITH KRANTZ If judged only by the results that challenge the laws of probabilities, then the power of prayer is ... JUDITH HAYES My mother was a huge, huge reader. I think I picked up very early how precious it was to write thing... JUDITH VIORST Some of his comments suggested insubordination on my part. I have always written the articles assign... JUDITH MILLER I started buying bits of broken porcelain. I furnished our first flat with pieces of 'junk.'... JUDITH MILLER Obama was late to affirm the Egyptian revolution as a democratic movement, and even then he was eage... JUDITH BUTLER Without Mark Felt there would have been none of the revelations that showed what began as a third-ra... JUDITH MILLER Etiquette is all human social behavior. If you're a hermit on a mountain, you don't have to ... JUDITH MARTIN Freedom without rules doesn't work. And communities do not work unless they are regulated by eti... JUDITH MARTIN