The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women

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Summary: My Single Greatest Reference for Writing!
Review: As a relationship author I'm always in search of great reference books to find quotations and generate new ideas. This book is without doubt the very best of its kind. After acquiring this one you'll see how trivial most other quotations books are...in fact most are simply gift books. But this one has a ton and a wide variety of wise, colorful, poetic, literary, self-help, and motivational quotations. I can overemphasize how much this book has been a help for me with writing. It's simply the best. All authors should own this!

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Summary: I LOVE THIS BOOK!
Review: How refreshing to open this book and not have to search for a quote by a female! They're ALL by women! Reading through Bartlett's you'd think there were only a few quotable women on the earth. The book is divided by subject and highly readable. I recommend this book to all word lovers. It's a treasure full of previously hidden gems. . . I love this quote by Alice Walker, "Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the day before."

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Summary: One of the best quotation books in print (or out)
Review: On my office bookshelves I have perhaps 150 books of quotations, which as a writer I refer to constantly. This book of quotations stands heads and shoulders above the rest of them, not because it's women but because it's full of superb, thoughtful, wise, witty, useful quotations and because it's so well-documented (you know who actually said what, on what occasion). There's more genuine scholarship behind this than in a dozen Bartletts'. I'll buy any book Rosalie Maggio puts her name on because she does her homework and has good taste.