"I was born to be a remarkable woman; it matters little in what way or how. ... I shall be famous or I will die."

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Source : Marie Bashkirtseff, Phyllis Howard Kernberger, Katherine Kernberger (1997). “I am the most interesting book of all: the diary of Marie Bashkirtseff”, Chronicle Books Llc

Marie Bashkirtseff

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“I found myself immediately attracted to Pope John Paul II when, upon his election to the Papacy, his published speeches invariably called attention to the need for recognizing the dignity of the human being as a child of God.”
“I am further back, surrounded on all sides by wailing men, their faces shiny with tears. Uncle Al promised three dollars and a bottle of Canadian whiskey to the man who puts on the best show. You've never seen such grief-- even the dogs were howling.”
“Just because you discover that you may like somebody after all, it doesn't necessarily mean there's any attraction.”

Source : Steve Kluger (2009). “My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park”, p.134, Penguin
“I'm so tired of the left trying to divide us by race. One of the things I said today in my speech, we're not Indian-Americans, African-Americans, Irish-Americans, rich Americans, poor Americans. We're all Americans.”

Source : "Is the Confederate flag controversy a Democratic problem?". "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. June 25, 2015.
“I am Fidel Castro and we have come to liberate Cuba.”
“We can have democracy and a prosperous, just, and sustainable human future. Or we can have corporate rule. We cannot have both.”
“Only the stupefying ignorance of young women prevents them from comprehending the stupefying emptiness of the men who cluster round them.”
“We may not live in the past, but the past lives in us.”

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