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Nancy Astor: Pioneers may be...

Nancy Astor: Pioneers may be...

Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.

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Nancy Astor: Women have got...

Nancy Astor: Women have got...

Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for...

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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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Jessamyn West: To meet at...

Jessamyn West: To meet at...

To meet at all, one must open ones eyes to another; and there is no true conversation no matter how many words are...

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Margery Allingham: The optimism of...

Margery Allingham: The optimism of...

The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.

Source: In Words of Women...

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George Eliot: The responsibility of...

George Eliot: The responsibility of...

The responsibility of tolerance lies in those who have the wider vision.

Source: In...

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Mary Roberts Rinehart: Men deceive themselves;...

Mary Roberts Rinehart: Men deceive themselves;...

Men deceive themselves; they look back on the children who were once themselves, and attempt to reconstruct them. But...

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Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: No man chooses...

Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: No man chooses...

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness.

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Wilma Rudolph: What do you...

Wilma Rudolph: What do you...

What do you do after you are world-famous and nineteen or twenty and you have sat with prime ministers, kings and...

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Dorothy Parker: They sicken of...

Dorothy Parker: They sicken of...

They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.

Source: Fair Weather, Sunset Gun,...

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Julia Child: Non cooks think...

Julia Child: Non cooks think...

Non cooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, well, so...

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Marilyn vos Savant: The length of...

Marilyn vos Savant: The length of...

The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than...

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Anne Frank: I don't believe...

Anne Frank: I don't believe...

I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little...

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Martha Gellhorn: Citizenship is a...

Martha Gellhorn: Citizenship is a...

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by...

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Mary Pettibone Poole: You can keep...

Mary Pettibone Poole: You can keep...

You can keep your friends by not giving them away.

Source: A Glass Eye at a...

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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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Gloria Steinem: . . ....

Gloria Steinem: . . ....

. . . as for logic, it's in the eye of the logician.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Mary Harris Mother Jones: I am not...

Mary Harris Mother Jones: I am not...

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I...

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Doris Lessing: In the writing...

Doris Lessing: In the writing...

In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest. I...

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Dorothy Parker: If, with the...

Dorothy Parker: If, with the...

If, with the literate, I am
Impelled to try an epigram,
I never seek to take the credit;
We all assume that...

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