Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place.
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MARGARET MITCHELL So you are a vampire."
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Aunt Grace leaned closer to the boar...
MARGARET STOHL We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of pr...
MARGARET ATWOOD But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it...
MARGARET ATWOOD Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Wat...
MARGARET ATWOOD The way to get a man interested and to hold his interest was to talk about himself, and then gradual...
MARGARET MITCHELL Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting ...
MARGARET MEAD To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.
MARGARET OLIPHANT The incomprehensibleness of women is an old theory, but what is that to the curious wondering observ...
MARGARET OLIPHANT Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetual...
MARGARET FULLER One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.
MARGARET THATCHER For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elder...
MARGARET MEAD Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they g...
MARGARET HALSEY People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My messa...
MARGARET THATCHER I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
MARGARET THATCHER Nature provides exceptions to every rule.
MARGARET FULLER The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.
MARGARET DRABBLE The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly...
MARGARET MITCHELL I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
MARGARET THATCHER Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and auto...
MARGARET MEAD Our humility rest upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinite...
MARGARET MEAD When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate ...
MARGARET MEAD People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky...
MARGARET MEAD I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.
MARGARET FULLER Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doi...
MARGARET THATCHER Beauty puts a face on God. When we gaze at nature, at a loved one, at a work of art, our soul immedi...
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