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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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Jean Kerr: I think success...

Jean Kerr: I think success...

I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.

Source:...

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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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Jane Howard: Anthropology [was] the...

Jane Howard: Anthropology [was] the...

Anthropology [was] the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the...

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Anita Brookner: You have no...

Anita Brookner: You have no...

You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how...

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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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Marge Piercy: It is not...

Marge Piercy: It is not...

It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover.

Source: In Webster's...

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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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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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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: Genius will live...

Margaret Fuller: Genius will live...

Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning...

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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: As selfishness and...

Helen Keller: As selfishness and...

As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens 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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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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Louise Nevelson: The freer that...

Louise Nevelson: The freer that...

The freer that women become, the freer will men be. Because when you enslave someone, you are...

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Debbi Fields: I had always...

Debbi Fields: I had always...

I had always been taught that life was the other way around -- that you had to make sure you got what was coming to...

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Rosabeth Moss Kanter: Power is the...

Rosabeth Moss Kanter: Power is the...

Power is the ability to get things done.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for...

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Barbara Ward: Jews were the...

Barbara Ward: Jews were the...

Jews were the first to believe that history itself has meaning and that progress, not repetition, is the law of...

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Grace Hansen: Don't be afraid...

Grace Hansen: Don't be afraid...

Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.

Source:...

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