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Joanna Field: I began to...

Joanna Field: I began to...

I began to have an idea of my life, not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the...

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Ann Plato: Oh! may each...

Ann Plato: Oh! may each...

Oh! may each youthful bosom, catch the sacred fire . . .

Source: Lines.
-- Ann...

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Erica Jong: Your morals are...

Erica Jong: Your morals are...

Your morals are like roads through the Alps. They make these hairpin turns all the time.

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Elizabeth Dole: My objective as...

Elizabeth Dole: My objective as...

My objective as Secretary of Labor is to look through the 'glass ceiling' to see who is on the other side, and to...

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Indira Gandhi: My father was...

Indira Gandhi: My father was...

My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not.

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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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Ella T Grasso: I keep my...

Ella T Grasso: I keep my...

I keep my campaign promises, but I never promised to wear stockings.

Source: In...

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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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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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Toni Morrison: I wrote my...

Toni Morrison: I wrote my...

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

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-- Toni Morrison,...

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Toni Morrison: Bit by bit...

Toni Morrison: Bit by bit...

Bit by bit . . . she had claimed herself. Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was...

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Madeleine L'Engle: If you're going...

Madeleine L'Engle: If you're going...

If you're going to care about the fall of the sparrow you can't pick and choose who's going to be the...

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Erica Jong: Everyone has talent....

Erica Jong: Everyone has talent....

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it...

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Erica Jong: Everyone has talent....

Erica Jong: Everyone has talent....

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark places where it...

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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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Johnnetta Betsch Cole: The woman who...

Johnnetta Betsch Cole: The woman who...

The woman who bore me is no longer alive, but I seem to be her daughter in increasingly profound...

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Rose Elizabeth Bird: My role isn't...

Rose Elizabeth Bird: My role isn't...

My role isn't to be politically smart. My role is to do what's right under the constitution. And if that's politically...

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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: Wit lies in...

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: Wit lies in...

Wit lies in recognising the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are...

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Paule Marshall: Once a great...

Paule Marshall: Once a great...

Once a great wrong has been done, it never dies. People speak the words of peace, but their hearts do not forgive....

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Margaret Walker: Now when you...

Margaret Walker: Now when you...

Now when you hates you shrinks up inside and gets littler and you squeezes your heart tight and you stays so mad...

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