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Liz Smith: No matter who...

Liz Smith: No matter who...

No matter who you are or what you plan to do in life, learn to type!

Source: In...

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Anne Frank: Think of all...

Anne Frank: Think of all...

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Source: Diary of a...

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Alice James: I make it...

Alice James: I make it...

I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty...

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Erma Bombeck: The suburbs were...

Erma Bombeck: The suburbs were...

The suburbs were discovered, quite by accident, one day in the early 1940's by a Welcome Wagon lady who was...

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Anne Frank: The final forming...

Anne Frank: The final forming...

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Source: The...

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Martha Gellhorn: Citizenship is a...

Martha Gellhorn: Citizenship is a...

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by...

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Erma Bombeck: It is not...

Erma Bombeck: It is not...

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and...

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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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Marge Piercy: Love as if...

Marge Piercy: Love as if...

Love as if you liked yourself, and it may happen.

Source:
-- Marge Piercy, (Mar...

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Julie Burchill: What Mrs. Thatcher...

Julie Burchill: What Mrs. Thatcher...

What Mrs. Thatcher did for women was to demonstrate that if a woman had enough desire she could do what she wanted, do...

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Belle Livingstone: I looked always...

Belle Livingstone: I looked always...

I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me instead of looking within myself to see...

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June Jordan: As a poet...

June Jordan: As a poet...

As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements...

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Maria Weston Chapman: Grudge no expense...

Maria Weston Chapman: Grudge no expense...

Grudge no expense -- yield to no opposition -- forget fatigue -- till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the...

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Dolores Huerta: Giving kids clothes...

Dolores Huerta: Giving kids clothes...

Giving kids clothes and food is one thing but it's much more important to teach them that other people besides...

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Margaret Fuller: The especial genius...

Margaret Fuller: The especial genius...

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, and spiritual in...

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Virginia Woolf: My own brain...

Virginia Woolf: My own brain...

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery --always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then...

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Jeanne-Marie Roland: The more I...

Jeanne-Marie Roland: The more I...

The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs.

Source: Attributed.
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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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Helen Keller: No pessimist ever...

Helen Keller: No pessimist ever...

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or open a new heaven to the...

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Helen Keller: Although the world...

Helen Keller: Although the world...

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

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