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There once was a woman named Story Easton who couldn't decide if she should kill herself, or eat a double cheeseburger.


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ELIZABETH GASKELL Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.
ELIZABETH BOWEN Making a decision to have a child -- it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go w...
ELIZABETH STONE Never to lie is to have no lock to your door, you are never wholly alone.
ELIZABETH BOWEN Don
ELIZABETH TAYLOR I take, O cross, thy shadow
For my abiding-place:
I ask no other sunshine than
The sunshin...
ELIZABETH CLEPHANE Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.
ELIZABETH FULLER The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it.
ELIZABETH JANEWAY I have a woman's body and a child's emotions.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
ELIZABETH BOWEN Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from co...
ELIZABETH JANEWAY When people say, 'She's got everything', I've got one answer - I haven't had tomorrow.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
ELIZABETH GASKELL Although I may not be a lioness, I am a lion's cub, and inherit many of his qualities; and as long a...
ELIZABETH I Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
ELIZABETH BOWEN Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: that I have reigned with you...
ELIZABETH I I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am e...
ELIZABETH I Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters...
QUEEN ELIZABETH Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.
ELIZABETH HARRISON Propaganda has a bad name, but its root meaning is simply to disseminate through a medium, and all w...
ELIZABETH DREW The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in...
ELIZABETH DREW It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH Its the little things that matter, that add up in the end, with the priceless thrilling magic found ...
ELIZABETH DUNPHY For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the ...
ELIZABETH BLACKWELL The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to ...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.
ELIZABETH BOWEN The fifties -- they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK