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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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Anne Sullivan: My heart is...

Anne Sullivan: My heart is...

My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little...

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Hannah Arendt: Promises are the...

Hannah Arendt: Promises are the...

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this...

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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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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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Corrie Ten Boom: Memories are the...

Corrie Ten Boom: Memories are the...

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Corrie Ten Boom: Faith sees the...

Corrie Ten Boom: Faith sees the...

Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.

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Mary Todd Lincoln: Beautiful, glorious Scotland,...

Mary Todd Lincoln: Beautiful, glorious Scotland,...

Beautiful, glorious Scotland, has spoilt me for every other country!

Source:...

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Victoria Claffin Woodhull: All talk of...

Victoria Claffin Woodhull: All talk of...

All talk of women's rights is moonshine. Women have every right. They have only to exercise...

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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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Ruth Benedict: If we justify...

Ruth Benedict: If we justify...

If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not...

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Polly Adler: The only difference...

Polly Adler: The only difference...

The only difference between them and my girls is that my girls gave a man his money's...

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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.


Source:...

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Queen Victoria: Great events make...

Queen Victoria: Great events make...

Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

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Martha Carey Thomas: My one aim...

Martha Carey Thomas: My one aim...

My one aim and concentrated purpose shall be and is to show that women can learn, can reason, can compete with men in...

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Bella Abzug: If we get...

Bella Abzug: If we get...

If we get a government that reflects more of what this country is really about, we can turn the century -- and the...

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Charleszetta Waddles: You can have...

Charleszetta Waddles: You can have...

You can have all the intelligence in the world and don't have enough stamina. I have seen some very bright, bright...

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Fannie Lou Hamer: White Americans today...

Fannie Lou Hamer: White Americans today...

White Americans today don't know what in the world to do because when they put us behind them, that's where they made...

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Mother Teresa: God doesn't require...

Mother Teresa: God doesn't require...

God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.

Source: In...

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Mary McLeod Bethune: If our people...

Mary McLeod Bethune: If our people...

If our people are to fight their way out of bondage we must arm them with the sword and the shield and the buckler of...

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