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If I had girls to educate I would not have them learn both music and drawing.


Anne Seward

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JAVIER GARCIA I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.
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ANNE FRANK I see the eight of us with our 'Secret Annexe' as if we were a little piece of blue heaven, surround...
ANNE FRANK Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for...
ANNE BAXTER In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.
ANNE BAXTER I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.
ANNE BAXTER It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from...
ANNE BAXTER And I knew my vision of the garden of savage beauty had been a true vision. There was meaning in the...
ANNE RICE Confusion is an often too subtle sign of paranoia.
ANNE AUSTIN Make no judgements where you have no compassion.
ANNE MCCAFFREY Gardens, scholars say, are the first sign of commitment to a community. When people plant corn they ...
ANNE RAVER Is discord going to show itself while we are still fighting, is the Jew once again worth less than a...
ANNE FRANK Society's double behavioral standard for women and for men is, in fact, a more effective deterrent t...
ANNE TUCKER Vibrators. I think they are great. They keep you out of stupid sex. I'd pitch them to anybody.
ANNE HECHE Sex is a short cut to everything.
ANNE CUMMING Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
ANNE FRANK When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and o...
ANNE LAMOTT A hundred years from now? All new people.
ANNE LAMOTT Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to...
ANNE LAMOTT Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, t...
ANNE LAMOTT I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.
ANNE LAMOTT