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Ellen Swallow Richards: The environment that...

Ellen Swallow Richards: The environment that...

The environment that people live in is the environment that they learn to live in, respond to, and perpetuate. If the...

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Rosalyn Sussman Yalow: The world cannot...

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow: The world cannot...

The world cannot afford the loss of the talents of half its people if we are to solve the many problems that beset...

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Peg Bracken: It's easier to...

Peg Bracken: It's easier to...

It's easier to find a traveling companion than to get rid of one.

Source: But I...

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Maria Mitchell: Every formula which...

Maria Mitchell: Every formula which...

Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.

Source:...

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Marie Anne du Deffand: I hear nothings,...

Marie Anne du Deffand: I hear nothings,...

I hear nothings, I speak nothings, I take interest in nothing and from nothing to nothing I travel gently down the...

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Carter Heyward: It's obvious throughout...

Carter Heyward: It's obvious throughout...

It's obvious throughout secular and church history that significant legislation follows only after dramatic...

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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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Doroth?e DeLuzy: Employment and ennui...

Doroth?e DeLuzy: Employment and ennui...

Employment and ennui are simply incompatible.

Source: In The Last Word - A Treasury...

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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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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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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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Beryl Markham: The abhorrence of...

Beryl Markham: The abhorrence of...

The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all.

Source: In...

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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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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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Etty Hillesum: Life cannot be...

Etty Hillesum: Life cannot be...

Life cannot be captured in a few axioms. And that is just what I keep trying to do. But it won't work, for life is...

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Hannah Arendt: Total loyalty is...

Hannah Arendt: Total loyalty is...

Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might...

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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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Annie Elizabeth Delany: Ain't nobody going...

Annie Elizabeth Delany: Ain't nobody going...

Ain't nobody going to censor me, no, sir! I'm a hundred and one years old, and at my age, honey, I can say what I...

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Rachel Carson: Those who contemplate...

Rachel Carson: Those who contemplate...

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life...

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Susanna Moodie: I have no...

Susanna Moodie: I have no...

I have no wish for a second husband. l had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and...

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