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I acknowledge Shakespeare to be the world's greatest dramatic poet, but regret that no parent could place the uncorrected book in the hands of his daughter, and therefore I have prepared the Family Shakespeare. ↗

— Thomas Bowdler

#book #could #daughter #dramatic #family

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them. ↗

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

#change #characters #choose #count #friends

Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#kinder #life #narcissist #nobody #own

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#does #experience #fact #hardly #in fact

I'm built like a 14-year-old boy. I have no waist, so anything I wear has to have a lot of trickeration going on. I don't fit into girl dresses. I can't just slip it on. ↗

— Julie Bowen

#boy #built #dresses #fit #girl

It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad. ↗

— Julie Bowen

#bad #chances #faith #modicum #patience

Television is where the best work for women is right now. I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters. ↗

— Julie Bowen

#best work #characters #greater #i #love

A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence. ↗

— Marvin Bower

#business #confidence #decisively #do the right thing #drive

Basic philosophy, spirit and drive of an organization have far more to do with its relative achievements than do technological or economic resources, organizational structure, innovation and timing. ↗

— Marvin Bower

#basic #drive #economic #far #innovation

I am sure that every one of my colleagues - Democrat, Republican, and Independent - agrees with that statement. That in the voting booth, every one is equal. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#booth #colleagues #democrat #equal #every