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Charlotte Forten Grimke: Provoking, isn't it?...

Charlotte Forten Grimke: Provoking, isn't it?...

Provoking, isn't it? that when one is most in need of sensible words, one finds them not.

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Gloria Naylor: One should be...

Gloria Naylor: One should be...

One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire...

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Paule Marshall: Sometimes a person...

Paule Marshall: Sometimes a person...

Sometimes a person has to go back, really back -- to have a sense, an understanding of all that's gone to make them --...

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Iris Murdoch: All artists dream...

Iris Murdoch: All artists dream...

All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to...

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Life is obstinate...

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Life is obstinate...

Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.

Source: Frankenstein,...

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Tillie Olsen: I could not...

Tillie Olsen: I could not...

I could not live by literature if only to begin with, because of the slow maturing of my work and its special...

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Tillie Olsen: I know that...

Tillie Olsen: I know that...

I know that I haven't powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who...

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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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Madeleine L'Engle: If you're going...

Madeleine L'Engle: If you're going...

If you're going to care about the fall of the sparrow you can't pick and choose who's going to be the...

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George Eliot: Our consciousness rarely...

George Eliot: Our consciousness rarely...

Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us: there have been many...

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Gail Godwin: The best antidote...

Gail Godwin: The best antidote...

The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: there is a forward...

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Gayl Jones: My great-grandmama told...

Gayl Jones: My great-grandmama told...

My great-grandmama told my grandmama . . . and my grandmama told my mama what they both lived through and my mama told...

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Elizabeth Dole: We aim to...

Elizabeth Dole: We aim to...

We aim to give a 'wake-up call' to businesses, to alert them to the fact that the next 'fair-haired boy' of their...

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Barbara Jordan: We must exchange...

Barbara Jordan: We must exchange...

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse -- what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of...

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Shirley Chisholm: When morality comes...

Shirley Chisholm: When morality comes...

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom profit that loses.

Source: In...

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Edith Clara Summerskill: [G]overnments still pin...

Edith Clara Summerskill: [G]overnments still pin...

[G]overnments still pin their faith to some new economic nostrum which is produced periodically by some bright young...

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Marie Antoinette: I have seen...

Marie Antoinette: I have seen...

I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all.

Source: Reply to...

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Jennie Jerome Churchill: There is no...

Jennie Jerome Churchill: There is no...

There is no such thing as a moral dress -- it's people who are moral or immoral.

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Nancy Astor: I used to...

Nancy Astor: I used to...

I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that...

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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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