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Ruth Benedict: We grow in...

Ruth Benedict: We grow in...

We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.

Source: An Anthropologist at...

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Hannah Arendt: Ideas, as distinguished...

Hannah Arendt: Ideas, as distinguished...

Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented.

Source: In The...

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Eleanor Holmes Norton: With children no...

Eleanor Holmes Norton: With children no...

With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their...

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Barbara McClintock: I know [my...

Barbara McClintock: I know [my...

I know [my corn plants] intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.

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Jane Addams: Old-fashioned ways which...

Jane Addams: Old-fashioned ways which...

Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always...

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Maggie Kuhn: Men and women...

Maggie Kuhn: Men and women...

Men and women approaching retirement age should be recycled for public service work, and their companies should foot...

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Clare Boothe Luce: There are no...

Clare Boothe Luce: There are no...

There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.

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Rosalyn Sussman Yalow: In the past,...

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow: In the past,...

In the past, few women have tried and even fewer have succeeded.

Source: In Words...

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Elsa Schiaparelli: Eating is not...

Elsa Schiaparelli: Eating is not...

Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to...

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Shirley Hufstedler: I empathize with...

Shirley Hufstedler: I empathize with...

I empathize with those who yearn for a simpler world, for some bygone golden age of domestic and international...

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Svetlana Alliluyeva: Moscow, breathing fire...

Svetlana Alliluyeva: Moscow, breathing fire...

Moscow, breathing fire like a human volcano with its smouldering lava of passion, ambition and politics, its...

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Margaret Mead: I must admit...

Margaret Mead: I must admit...

I must admit I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human...

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Mary Catherine Bateson: Goals too clearly...

Mary Catherine Bateson: Goals too clearly...

Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.

Source: Composing a Life,...

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Emma Hart Willard: While their sisters...

Emma Hart Willard: While their sisters...

While their sisters are gliding through the mazes of the midnight dance, [sons] employ the lamp, to treasure up for...

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Charlotte Forten Grimke: Ah, what a...

Charlotte Forten Grimke: Ah, what a...

Ah, what a grand, glorious day this has been. The dawn of freedom which it heralds may not break upon us at once; but...

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bell hooks: [O]ne of the...

bell hooks: [O]ne of the...

[O]ne of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we...

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Suzanne K Langer: Art is the...

Suzanne K Langer: Art is the...

Art is the objectification of feeling.

Source: Mind, An Essay on Human Feeling,...

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Marie Curie: Nothing in life...

Marie Curie: Nothing in life...

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Source: In Peter's...

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Mary Harris Mother Jones: Injustice boils in...

Mary Harris Mother Jones: Injustice boils in...

Injustice boils in men's hearts as does steel in its caldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of...

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Deborah Kerr: I adore not...

Deborah Kerr: I adore not...

I adore not being me. I'm not very good at being me. That's why I adore acting so much.

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