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“A really plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm”
Edgar Saltus
“When the candles are out all women are fair”
Plutarch
“So few grown women like their lives”
Katharine Graham
“I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.”
Dolly Parton
“A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like the surgeon, a craftsman, or, like the physician and the psychologist, an artist. This means that in order to be a good doctor a man must also have a good character, that is to say, whatever weaknesses and foibles he may have, he must love his fellow human beings in the concrete and desire their good before his own.”
W. H. Auden
“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
Coco Chanel
“There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering”
Minna Antrim
“The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.”
Eldridge Cleaver
“What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.”
Eleanor Powell
“The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it.”
Mae West
