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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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Toni Morrison: I wrote my...

Toni Morrison: I wrote my...

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

Source:
-- Toni Morrison,...

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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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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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Lydia M Child: Every man deems...

Lydia M Child: Every man deems...

Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear;...

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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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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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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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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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Edith Clara Summerskill: Today, literate people...

Edith Clara Summerskill: Today, literate people...

Today, literate people of the space age, in well-populated countries, are not prepared to accept taboos without...

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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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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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Lucille Ball: Luck? I don't...

Lucille Ball: Luck? I don't...

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is...

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Louise Erdrich: They were so...

Louise Erdrich: They were so...

They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were;...

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Louise Erdrich: I was in...

Louise Erdrich: I was in...

I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms.

Source: In...

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Charlotte Bronte: It is vain...

Charlotte Bronte: It is vain...

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it...

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Christina Aguilera: Right now I'm...

Christina Aguilera: Right now I'm...

Right now I'm pretty single . . . . My career is my boyfriend.

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Imelda Marcos: I did not...

Imelda Marcos: I did not...

I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.

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