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Catharine Esther Beecher: The delicate and...

Catharine Esther Beecher: The delicate and...

The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like...

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Betty Smith: Look at everything...

Betty Smith: Look at everything...

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be...

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Shirley Hazzard: Perhaps if we...

Shirley Hazzard: Perhaps if we...

Perhaps if we lived with less physical beauty we would develop our true natures more.

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Zelda Fitzgerald: We grew up...

Zelda Fitzgerald: We grew up...

We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to...

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Eleanor Roosevelt: You must do...

Eleanor Roosevelt: You must do...

You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.

Source: In The Book of Success,...

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Barbara Mikulski: America is not...

Barbara Mikulski: America is not...

America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron.

Source: Speech, First...

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Edith Clara Summerskill: Prize-fighting is still...

Edith Clara Summerskill: Prize-fighting is still...

Prize-fighting is still accepted as a display worthy of a civilized people despite the fact that all those connected...

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Elizabeth I: I know I...

Elizabeth I: I know I...

I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of...

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Nancy Astor: Women have got...

Nancy Astor: Women have got...

Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for...

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Hannah Arendt: To be sure,...

Hannah Arendt: To be sure,...

To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities. . . than a rigorously enforced divorce...

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Life is obstinate...

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Life is obstinate...

Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.

Source: Frankenstein,...

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Ariel Durant: One of the...

Ariel Durant: One of the...

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to...

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Anne Frank: Just imagine how...

Anne Frank: Just imagine how...

Just imagine how interesting it would be if I were to publish a romance of the Secret Annexe. The title alone would be...

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Harriet Ann Jacobs: There are wrongs...

Harriet Ann Jacobs: There are wrongs...

There are wrongs which even the grave does not bury.

Source: Incidents in the Life...

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Jean Kerr: I think success...

Jean Kerr: I think success...

I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.

Source:...

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Anna Quindlen: New York City...

Anna Quindlen: New York City...

New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a...

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Mary Church Terrell: [T]he chasm between...

Mary Church Terrell: [T]he chasm between...

[T]he chasm between the principles upon which this Government was founded, in which it still professes to believe, and...

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton: There is a...

Elizabeth Cady Stanton: There is a...

There is a solitude which each and every one of us has always carried within. More inaccessible than the ice cold...

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Helen Keller: The most pathetic...

Helen Keller: The most pathetic...

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but has no vision.

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Julia Child: Non cooks think...

Julia Child: Non cooks think...

Non cooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, well, so...

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