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Maya Angelou: There is a...

Maya Angelou: There is a...

There is a kind of strength that is almost frightening in black women. It's as if a steel rod runs right through the...

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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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Elizabeth Gould Davis: So long has...

Elizabeth Gould Davis: So long has...

So long has the myth of feminine inferiority prevailed that women themselves find it hard to believe that their own...

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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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Marie Anne du Deffand: Ah! I shall...

Marie Anne du Deffand: Ah! I shall...

Ah! I shall repeat it endlessly, the only misfortune is to be born!

Source: In An...

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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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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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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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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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Barbara McClintock: I've just been...

Barbara McClintock: I've just been...

I've just been so interested in what I was doing [genetic research] that I never thought of stopping, and I just hated...

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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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Mary Jean LeTendre: Let us never...

Mary Jean LeTendre: Let us never...

Let us never confuse stability with stagnation.

Source:
-- Mary Jean LeTendre,...

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Mary Ritter Beard: Viewed narrowly, all...

Mary Ritter Beard: Viewed narrowly, all...

Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and the expression of energy associated with...

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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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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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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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Marie Anne du Deffand: I love nothing...

Marie Anne du Deffand: I love nothing...

I love nothing and that is the true cause of my ennui.

Source: Letter to Jean Le...

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