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  • Basil Bunting Gin the goodwife stint
    and the bairns hunger
    the Duke can get his rent
    one year longer.
    Odes Gin the Goodwife Stint, I:14
    Basil Bunting
    British poet (1900 - 1985)
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  • Caitlin Flanagan Girls are really looking to places that have limits and boundaries: where adults are the adults and there are rules, and where they feel safe.
    Caitlin Flanagan
    American writer
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  • Louisa May Alcott Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it.
    Louisa May Alcott
    American Author (1832 - 1888)
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  • Beth Ditto Girls are taught to sing high and pretty, like Antony, not low and from the guts like Nina Simone. But we're slowly trying to change that. There are so many things we're not told growing up, and it's our true feminist responsibility to take the truth to the people who need to hear it.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Caitlin Flanagan Girls are the best readers in the world. Reading is really a way of kind of escaping so deeply into yourself and pursuing your own thoughts within the construct of a story.
    Caitlin Flanagan
    American writer
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Brenda Laurel Girls enjoy complex social interaction. Their verbal skills - and their delight in using them - develop earlier than boys'.
    Brenda Laurel
    American video game designer and researcher (1950 - )
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  • Boris Becker Girls had never been important. I'd had a girlfriend or two and had liked them a lot but it wasn't love, because my first love was tennis.
    Boris Becker
    German tennis player (1967 - )
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Anzia Yezierska Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the rest of your fortune. Poverty is a bag with a hole at the bottom.
    Anzia Yezierska
    Jewish-American novelist (1880 - 1970)
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  • Marilyn Monroe Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.
    Marilyn Monroe
    American actress (1926 - 1962)
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  • Thomas J. Peters Give a lot, expect a lot, and if you don't get it, prune.
    Thomas J. Peters
    American Management Consultant, Author, Trainer (1942 - )
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  • Bill Owen Give a man a beer, waste an hour. Teach a man to brew, and waste a lifetime!
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  • C. Neil Strait Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.
    C. Neil Strait
    American priest and author (1934 - 2003)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Give a man health and a course to steer; and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Abraham Kaplan Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.
    Abraham Kaplan
    American philosopher
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  • John Greenleaf Whittier Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    American poet and writer (1807 - 1892)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • John Ruskin Give little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • B. F. Skinner Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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