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Nancy Reagan: I don't think...

Nancy Reagan: I don't think...

I don't think most people associate me with leeches or how to get them off. But I know how to get them off. I'm an...

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Martha Washington: I very linearly...

Martha Washington: I very linearly...

I very linearly [sic] wish you would exert yourself so as to keep all your matters in order your self without...

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Ava Gardner: Deep down, I'm...

Ava Gardner: Deep down, I'm...

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Source: Quoted in: Roland Flamini, Ava, ch. 8...

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Elizabeth Taylor: I've always admitted...

Elizabeth Taylor: I've always admitted...

I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Julia Roberts: If all you...

Julia Roberts: If all you...

If all you have to offer is a look that is suppose to be appealing, then you are going to be paid attention to about a...

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Marie Dressler: In order to...

Marie Dressler: In order to...

In order to represent life on the stage, we must rub elbows with life, live ourselves.

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Shirley Booth: I much prefer...

Shirley Booth: I much prefer...

I much prefer being a man. Women have to spend so much time pulling themselves together, and their shoes kill your...

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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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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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Phyllis Battelle: The general rule...

Phyllis Battelle: The general rule...

The general rule is that people who enjoy life also enjoy marriage.

Source: Hearst...

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Peggy Noonan: Wit penetrates; humor...

Peggy Noonan: Wit penetrates; humor...

Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good...

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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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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: She had her...

Ernestine L Rose: She had her...

She had her reward! -- that reward of which no enemie could deprive her, which no slanders could make less precious --...

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Rosa Parks: I was determined...

Rosa Parks: I was determined...

I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what...

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Bella Abzug: The establishment is...

Bella Abzug: The establishment is...

The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.

Source: In Bella!, by...

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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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Ariel Durant: The conservative who...

Ariel Durant: The conservative who...

The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.

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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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Barbara Mikulski: I think leadership...

Barbara Mikulski: I think leadership...

I think leadership is creating a state of mind in others.

Source: In Words of Women...

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