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Bessie Smith: No time to...

Bessie Smith: No time to...

No time to marry, no time to settle down;
I'm a young woman, and I ain't done runnin'...

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Lucille Ball: Luck? I don't...

Lucille Ball: Luck? I don't...

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is...

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Whitney Houston: I was aware...

Whitney Houston: I was aware...

I was aware of people staring at me. No one moved. They seemed almost in trance. I just stared at the clock in the...

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Pearl Bailey: Everybody wants to...

Pearl Bailey: Everybody wants to...

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be first.

Source: In...

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Pearl Bailey: No one can...

Pearl Bailey: No one can...

No one can figure out your worth but you.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for...

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Pearl Bailey: I see their...

Pearl Bailey: I see their...

I see their souls, and I hold them in my hands, and because I love them they weigh nothing. [on...

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Millicent Fenwick: The only people...

Millicent Fenwick: The only people...

The only people who would be in government are those who care more about people than they do about...

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Millicent Fenwick: The curious fascination...

Millicent Fenwick: The curious fascination...

The curious fascination in this job [U.S. representative] is the illusion that either you are being useful or you...

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Louise Erdrich: I was in...

Louise Erdrich: I was in...

I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms.

Source: In...

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Ethel Watts Mumford: There was a...

Ethel Watts Mumford: There was a...

There was a young person of Tottenhem,
Whose manners, good Lord! she'd forgotten 'em.


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Suzanne Curchod Necker: The most subtle...

Suzanne Curchod Necker: The most subtle...

The most subtle flattery a woman can receive is that conveyed by actions, not by words.

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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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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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Maria Weston Chapman: Slavery can only...

Maria Weston Chapman: Slavery can only...

Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only...

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Angelina Grimke: I am a...

Angelina Grimke: I am a...

I am a mystery to myself.

Source: Letter, Feb 1838; In Letters of Theodore Dwight...

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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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Andrea Dworkin: Women have been...

Andrea Dworkin: Women have been...

Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of...

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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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Erma Bombeck: The suburbs were...

Erma Bombeck: The suburbs were...

The suburbs were discovered, quite by accident, one day in the early 1940's by a Welcome Wagon lady who was...

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