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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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Karen Horney: There is no...

Karen Horney: There is no...

There is no good reason why we should not develop and change until the last day we live.

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Madame Chiang Kai-Shek: There is no...

Madame Chiang Kai-Shek: There is no...

There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by...

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Louisa May Alcott: Money is the...

Louisa May Alcott: Money is the...

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can...

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Judith Martin: We are all...

Judith Martin: We are all...

We are all born charming, fresh, and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in...

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Sojourner Truth: If the first...

Sojourner Truth: If the first...

If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought...

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Ernestine L Rose: . . ....

Ernestine L Rose: . . ....

. . . the reward of springing from the consciousness of right, of endeavoring to benefit unborn...

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Marilyn French: One thing that...

Marilyn French: One thing that...

One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape. . . it allows us to fix our emotions...

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Marilyn French: Women are afraid...

Marilyn French: Women are afraid...

Women are afraid in a world in which almost half the population bears the guise of the predator, in which no...

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Alice Koller: Long ago I...

Alice Koller: Long ago I...

Long ago I understood that it wasn't merely my being a woman that was preventing my being welcomed into the world of...

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Sara Jeannette Duncan: One loses many...

Sara Jeannette Duncan: One loses many...

One loses many laughs by not laughing at oneself.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Eda LeShan: . ....

Eda LeShan: . ....

. . . in all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly...

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Minna Thomas Antrim: Man forgives women...

Minna Thomas Antrim: Man forgives women...

Man forgives women anything save the wit to outwit him.

Source: Naked Truth and...

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Helen Keller: I long to...

Helen Keller: I long to...

I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great...

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Helen Keller: Keep your face...

Helen Keller: Keep your face...

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.

Source: In The...

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Dorothy Parker: They sicken of...

Dorothy Parker: They sicken of...

They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.

Source: Fair Weather, Sunset Gun,...

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Anne Frank: We all live...

Anne Frank: We all live...

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the...

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Anne Frank: I don't believe...

Anne Frank: I don't believe...

I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little...

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Coco Chanel: Material things aside,...

Coco Chanel: Material things aside,...

Material things aside, we need no advice but approval.

Source: Coco Chanel: Her...

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Jinger Heath: Don't do anything...

Jinger Heath: Don't do anything...

Don't do anything that someone else can do for you because there are only so many things that only you can...

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