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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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Anya Seton: The soul ....

Anya Seton: The soul ....

The soul . . . may have many symbols with which it reaches toward God.

Source: The...

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Anne Frank: The best remedy...

Anne Frank: The best remedy...

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone...

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Dorothy Dix: Women have changed...

Dorothy Dix: Women have changed...

Women have changed in their relationship to men, but men stand pat just where Adam did when it comes to dealing with...

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Antoinette Brown Blackwell: There were angry...

Antoinette Brown Blackwell: There were angry...

There were angry men confronting me and I caught the flashing of defiant eyes, but above me and within me, there was a...

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Hannah Whitall Smith: God stirs up...

Hannah Whitall Smith: God stirs up...

God stirs up our comfortable nests, and pushes us over the edge of them, and we are forced to use our wings to save...

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Margaret Sanger: The real hope...

Margaret Sanger: The real hope...

The real hope of the world lies in putting as painstaking thought into the business of mating as we do into other big...

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Andrea Dworkin: The will to...

Andrea Dworkin: The will to...

The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once...

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton: There is a...

Elizabeth Cady Stanton: There is a...

There is a solitude which each and every one of us has always carried within. More inaccessible than the ice cold...

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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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Barbara Ehrenreich: In economics, we...

Barbara Ehrenreich: In economics, we...

In economics, we borrowed from the Bourbons; in foreign policy, we drew on themes fashioned by the nomad warriors of...

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Dorothea Brande: The Wright brothers...

Dorothea Brande: The Wright brothers...

The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.

Source: In The...

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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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Jean Kerr: Life with Mary...

Jean Kerr: Life with Mary...

Life with Mary was like being in a telephone booth with an open umbrella no matter which way you turned, you got it in...

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Amelia Barr: There are no...

Amelia Barr: There are no...

There are no little events in life, those we think of no consequence may be full of fate, and it is at our own risk if...

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Amelia Barr: . . ....

Amelia Barr: . . ....

. . . it is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

Source: All the Days of...

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Rebecca West: Men must be...

Rebecca West: Men must be...

Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain...

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Marian Wright Edelman: Parents have become...

Marian Wright Edelman: Parents have become...

Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for children that they forget that they themselves...

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Marian Wright Edelman: Service to others...

Marian Wright Edelman: Service to others...

Service to others is the rent you pay for living on this planet.

Source: In Words...

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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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