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Ada Louise Huxtable: A disaster where...

Ada Louise Huxtable: A disaster where...

A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.

Source: On...

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Jeanne-Marie Roland: It is for...

Jeanne-Marie Roland: It is for...

It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the...

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Marguerite Duras: It's afterwards you...

Marguerite Duras: It's afterwards you...

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved...

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Johnnetta Betsch Cole: The woman who...

Johnnetta Betsch Cole: The woman who...

The woman who bore me is no longer alive, but I seem to be her daughter in increasingly profound...

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Christa McAuliffe: Sometimes when things...

Christa McAuliffe: Sometimes when things...

Sometimes when things get kind of frantic, it helps to call [my husband] because I think he's got a real good sense of...

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Margaret Walker: I want my...

Margaret Walker: I want my...

I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body's Southern song -- the fusion of the...

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Margaret Walker: You is born...

Margaret Walker: You is born...

You is born lucky, and it's better to be born lucky than born rich, cause if you is lucky you can git rich, but if...

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Margaret Walker: Friends and good...

Margaret Walker: Friends and good...

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

Source: Ji`bilee,...

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Carolyn Wells: We should live...

Carolyn Wells: We should live...

We should live and learn; but by the time we've learned, it's too late to live.

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Michelle Obama: It was one...

Michelle Obama: It was one...

It was one thing to get yourself out of a stuck place, I realized. It was another thing entirely to try and get the...

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Martha Wright Griffiths: It is a...

Martha Wright Griffiths: It is a...

It is a different world and they [the Supreme Court] should speak for justice, not prejudice.... I seek justice, not...

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Bernadette Devlin: Yesterday I dared...

Bernadette Devlin: Yesterday I dared...

Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Elizabeth II: It's all to...

Elizabeth II: It's all to...

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

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Dinah Mulock Craik: There was never...

Dinah Mulock Craik: There was never...

There was never a night that had no morn.

Source: The Golden Gate, Mulock's Poems,...

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Dinah Mulock Craik: Oh my son's...

Dinah Mulock Craik: Oh my son's...

Oh my son's my son till he gets a wife,
But my daughter's my daughter all her life.


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Emily Bronte: I am now...

Emily Bronte: I am now...

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient...

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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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Adelle Davis: Thousands upon thousands...

Adelle Davis: Thousands upon thousands...

Thousands upon thousands of persons have studied disease. Almost no one has studied...

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Margot Asquith: He's very clever,...

Margot Asquith: He's very clever,...

He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.

Source: Referring to F....

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Margot Asquith: To marry a...

Margot Asquith: To marry a...

To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had...

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