She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
JAMES THURBER
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Somebody has said that woman’s place is in the wrong. That’s fine. What the wrong needs is a woman’s presence and a woman’s touch. She is far better equipped than men to set it right.
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So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
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Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.
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I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart.
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The act of writing is either something the writer dreads or actually likes, and I actually like it. Even re-writing’s fun. You’re getting somewhere, whether it seems to move or not.
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Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.
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