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Lillian Carter: Jimmy says he'll...

Lillian Carter: Jimmy says he'll...

Jimmy says he'll never tell a lie. Well, I lie all the time. 1 have to -- to balance the family...

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Doroth?e DeLuzy: I have only...

Doroth?e DeLuzy: I have only...

I have only to take up this or that to flood my soul with memories.

Source: In The...

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Anne Wilson Schaef: Trusting our intuition...

Anne Wilson Schaef: Trusting our intuition...

Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Marie Anne du Deffand: Do I believe...

Marie Anne du Deffand: Do I believe...

Do I believe in ghosts? No, but I'm afraid of them.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Alice Paul: I never doubted...

Alice Paul: I never doubted...

I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me...

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Ellen Swallow Richards: They are so...

Ellen Swallow Richards: They are so...

They are so afraid we shall break down, and you know the reputation of the college is at stake, for the question is,...

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Maria Montessori: The only language...

Maria Montessori: The only language...

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them...

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bell hooks: . . .there...

bell hooks: . . .there...

. . .there is an element of Play that is almost ritualistic in Black folk life. It serves to mediate the tensions,...

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Ann Plato: [O]ne science, however,...

Ann Plato: [O]ne science, however,...

[O]ne science, however, there is, worth more than all the rest, and that is the science of living well -- which shall...

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Marie Anne du Deffand: Women are never...

Marie Anne du Deffand: Women are never...

Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weakness.

Source:...

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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: The past which...

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: The past which...

The past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past...

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Corazon Aquino: It is not...

Corazon Aquino: It is not...

It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history.

Source: Alluding to...

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St Teresa of Avila: How is it...

St Teresa of Avila: How is it...

How is it that there are not many who are led by sermons to forsake open sin? Do you know what I think? That is...

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Susanna Moodie: What a wonderful...

Susanna Moodie: What a wonderful...

What a wonderful faculty is memory! --the most mysterious and inexplicable in the great riddle of life; that plastic...

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Marie Curie: To be nobody-but-yourself...

Marie Curie: To be nobody-but-yourself...

To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to...

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Ellen Swallow Richards: I am really...

Ellen Swallow Richards: I am really...

I am really astonished at the amount of work we do. The only trouble here, they wont [sic] let us study enough. I...

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Rosalyn Sussman Yalow: [W]e must believe...

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow: [W]e must believe...

[W]e must believe in ourselves or no one else will believe in us; we must match our aspirations with the competence,...

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Tammy Faye Bakker: You can educate...

Tammy Faye Bakker: You can educate...

You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.

Source: In Observer...

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Corrie Ten Boom: Discernment is God's...

Corrie Ten Boom: Discernment is God's...

Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding.

Source: In...

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bell hooks: She wants to...

bell hooks: She wants to...

She wants to express herself -- to speak her mind. To them it is just talking back.

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