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Louisa May Alcott: Money is the...

Louisa May Alcott: Money is the...

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can...

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Elizabeth Blackwell: If society will...

Elizabeth Blackwell: If society will...

If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.

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Karen Horney: There is no...

Karen Horney: There is no...

There is no good reason why we should not develop and change until the last day we live.

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Mary Robinson: The fifth province...

Mary Robinson: The fifth province...

The fifth province is not anywhere here or there, north or south, east or west. It is a place within each of us. It is...

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Corazon Aquino: As our country...

Corazon Aquino: As our country...

As our country bled . . . its leader's wife came to this podium piously to call for a new human order, this when...

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Margaret Chase Smith: My basic rule...

Margaret Chase Smith: My basic rule...

My basic rule is to speak slowly and simply so that my audience has an opportunity to follow and think about what I am...

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Nancy Astor: Pioneers may be...

Nancy Astor: Pioneers may be...

Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.

Source:...

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Nancy Astor: The penalty of...

Nancy Astor: The penalty of...

The penalty of success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.

Source:...

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Nancy Astor: The first time...

Nancy Astor: The first time...

The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on women.

Source: Lady...

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Anne Tyler: While armchair travelers...

Anne Tyler: While armchair travelers...

While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.

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Anne Tyler: I'ts true that...

Anne Tyler: I'ts true that...

I'ts true that it [writing] is a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of...

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Dorothy L Sayers: There certainly does...

Dorothy L Sayers: There certainly does...

There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will...

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Jane Austen: Everything nourishes what...

Jane Austen: Everything nourishes what...

Everything nourishes what is strong already.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Ann (and Jane) Taylor: Though man a...

Ann (and Jane) Taylor: Though man a...

Though man a thinking being is defined,
Few use the grand prerogative of mind.
How few think justly of the...

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Zora Neale Hurston: There is no...

Zora Neale Hurston: There is no...

There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.

Source: In Words of...

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Vita Sackville-West: There are no...

Vita Sackville-West: There are no...

There are no signposts in the sea.

Source: No Signposts in the Sea, 1961.
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Nathalie Sarraute: Television has lifted...

Nathalie Sarraute: Television has lifted...

Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major...

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Aphra Behn: Money speaks sense...

Aphra Behn: Money speaks sense...

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.

Source: The Rover,...

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Janet Erskine Stuart: In no order...

Janet Erskine Stuart: In no order...

In no order of things is adolescence the time of the simple life.

Source: In 2,715...

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Elizabeth Bishop: The iceberg cuts...

Elizabeth Bishop: The iceberg cuts...

The iceberg cuts its facets from within
Like jewelry from a grave.


Source: The...

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