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Famous quotes containing the words washington, early and/or life:

    “Have you ever been in love? A doll in Washington Heights once got a fox fur out of me.”
    —Jay Dratler, U.S. screenwriter, Samuel Hoffenstein (1889–1947)

    “Many a woman shudders ... at the terrible eclipse of those intellectual powers which in early life seemed prophetic of usefulness and happiness, hence the army of martyrs among our married and unmarried women who, not having cultivated a taste for science, art or literature, form a corps of nervous patients who make fortunes for agreeable physicians ...”
    —Sarah M. Grimke (1792–1873)

    “Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.”
    —Brenda Ueland (1891–1985)