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Helena Petrova Blavatsky: This idea of...

Helena Petrova Blavatsky: This idea of...

This idea of passing one's whole life in moral idleness, and having one's hardest work and duty done by another --...

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Mary Pettibone Poole: You can keep...

Mary Pettibone Poole: You can keep...

You can keep your friends by not giving them away.

Source: A Glass Eye at a...

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Anne Frank: The best remedy...

Anne Frank: The best remedy...

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone...

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Harriet Ann Jacobs: My master had...

Harriet Ann Jacobs: My master had...

My master had power and law on his side; I had a determined will. There is might in each.

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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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Marian Wright Edelman: Somehow we are...

Marian Wright Edelman: Somehow we are...

Somehow we are going to have to develop a concept of enough for those at the top and at the bottom so that the...

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Sonia Johnson: We must remember...

Sonia Johnson: We must remember...

We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined...

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Elizabeth Janeway: Such simplicity cannot...

Elizabeth Janeway: Such simplicity cannot...

Such simplicity cannot be taught. But it can be denied and lost.

Source: In The...

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Margot Asquith: No one ever...

Margot Asquith: No one ever...

No one ever pruned me. If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days,...

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Margot Asquith: He has a...

Margot Asquith: He has a...

He has a brilliant mind until he makes it up.

Source: Referring to Sir Stafford...

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Jessamyn West: Teaching is the...

Jessamyn West: Teaching is the...

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for...

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Jessamyn West: I have done...

Jessamyn West: I have done...

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to...

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Mary Martha Sherwood: Where the habits...

Mary Martha Sherwood: Where the habits...

Where the habits are simple, and the mind truly elevated, then is society in the best state. ....

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Margaret Halsey: Bulldogs have been...

Margaret Halsey: Bulldogs have been...

Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.

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Harper Lee: The one thing...

Harper Lee: The one thing...

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

Source:...

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Mary Catherine Bateson: The timing of...

Mary Catherine Bateson: The timing of...

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded...

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Gail Godwin: Dreams say what...

Gail Godwin: Dreams say what...

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

Source: Dream...

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Gayl Jones: My great-grandmama told...

Gayl Jones: My great-grandmama told...

My great-grandmama told my grandmama . . . and my grandmama told my mama what they both lived through and my mama told...

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Toni Cade Bambara: The job of...

Toni Cade Bambara: The job of...

The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.

Source: In Famous Black...

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Toni Morrison: And like any...

Toni Morrison: And like any...

And like any artist with no art form, she became dangerous.

Source: Sula,...

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