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Christa McAuliffe: Sometimes when things...

Christa McAuliffe: Sometimes when things...

Sometimes when things get kind of frantic, it helps to call [my husband] because I think he's got a real good sense of...

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Marita Bonner: What's the need...

Marita Bonner: What's the need...

What's the need of working if it doesn't get you anywhere? What's the use of boring around in the same hole like a...

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George Sand: He who draws...

George Sand: He who draws...

He who draws noble delights from the sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all...

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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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Barbara Bush: You don't just...

Barbara Bush: You don't just...

You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is...

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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 Jordan: I never intended...

Barbara Jordan: I never intended...

I never intended to become a run-of-the-mill person.

Source:
-- Barbara Jordan,...

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Michelle Obama: It was one...

Michelle Obama: It was one...

It was one thing to get yourself out of a stuck place, I realized. It was another thing entirely to try and get the...

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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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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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Nancy Astor: A fool without...

Nancy Astor: A fool without...

A fool without fear is sometimes wiser than an angel with fear.

Source: My Two...

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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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Djuna Barnes: After all, it...

Djuna Barnes: After all, it...

After all, it is not where one washes one's neck that counts but where one moistens one's...

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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: It seems to...

Anne Tyler: It seems to...

It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a...

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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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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Children use the...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Children use the...

Children use the fist
Until they are of the age to use the brain.


Source: In...

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Joanna Baillie: What custom hath...

Joanna Baillie: What custom hath...

What custom hath endeared
We part with sadly, tho we prize it not.


Source:...

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Marianne Moore: Poetry: Not til...

Marianne Moore: Poetry: Not til...

Poetry: Not til poets among us can be 'literalists of imagination' -- above insolence and triviality and can present...

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Anna Letitia Barbauld: The dead of...

Anna Letitia Barbauld: The dead of...

The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.

Source: Poems, 1792.
-- Anna...

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