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Jackie Moms Mabley: Love is like...

Jackie Moms Mabley: Love is like...

Love is like playing checkers. You have to know which man to move.

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Joan L Curcio: Courageous risks are...

Joan L Curcio: Courageous risks are...

Courageous risks are life giving, they help you grow, make you brave and better than you think you...

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Eleanor Holmes Norton: The essence of...

Eleanor Holmes Norton: The essence of...

The essence of a free life is being able to choose the style of living you prefer free from exclusion and without the...

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Barbara Jordan: Education remains the...

Barbara Jordan: Education remains the...

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

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Amelia Earhart: Flying might not...

Amelia Earhart: Flying might not...

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

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Isabelle Eberhardt: I am not...

Isabelle Eberhardt: I am not...

I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way.

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Isabelle Eberhardt: I am full...

Isabelle Eberhardt: I am full...

I am full of the sorrow that goes with changes in surroundings, those successive stages of annihilation that slowly...

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Eleanor Roosevelt: I believe that...

Eleanor Roosevelt: I believe that...

I believe that all that we go through here must have some value.

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Anne Wilson Schaef: I realize that...

Anne Wilson Schaef: I realize that...

I realize that humor isn't for everyone. It's only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel...

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Rose Elizabeth Bird: We have probed...

Rose Elizabeth Bird: We have probed...

We have probed the earth, excavated it, burned it, ripped things from it, buried things in it . . . . That does not...

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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: When a noble...

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: When a noble...

When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of...

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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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Suzanne K Langer: A philosophy is...

Suzanne K Langer: A philosophy is...

A philosophy is characterized more by the formulation of its problems than by its solution of...

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Mary Wortley Montagu: There is nothing...

Mary Wortley Montagu: There is nothing...

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless...

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Martha Carey Thomas: The man's world...

Martha Carey Thomas: The man's world...

The man's world must become a man's and a woman's world. Why are we afraid?

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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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Elizabeth Coatsworth: To a life...

Elizabeth Coatsworth: To a life...

To a life that seizes
Upon content,
Locality seems
But accident.


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Sarah Winnemucca: If you make...

Sarah Winnemucca: If you make...

If you make fun of bad persons you make yourself beneath them. . . . Be kind to bad and good, for you don't know your...

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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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Maria Mitchell: We especially need...

Maria Mitchell: We especially need...

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and...

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