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Eda LeShan: . ....

Eda LeShan: . ....

. . . in all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly...

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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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Sojourner Truth: If the first...

Sojourner Truth: If the first...

If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down, these women together ought to be...

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Sojourner Truth: If the first...

Sojourner Truth: If the first...

If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought...

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Ernestine L Rose: . . ....

Ernestine L Rose: . . ....

. . . the reward of springing from the consciousness of right, of endeavoring to benefit unborn...

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Emma Goldman: Methods and means...

Emma Goldman: Methods and means...

Methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim.

Source: My Further...

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Hannah Whitall Smith: God stirs up...

Hannah Whitall Smith: God stirs up...

God stirs up our comfortable nests, and pushes us over the edge of them, and we are forced to use our wings to save...

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Andrea Dworkin: The will to...

Andrea Dworkin: The will to...

The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once...

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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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Betty Ford: My makeup wasn't...

Betty Ford: My makeup wasn't...

My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could I...

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Margaret Chase Smith: One of the...

Margaret Chase Smith: One of the...

One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They...

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Beatrix Potter: Thank God I...

Beatrix Potter: Thank God I...

Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land...

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Margot Asquith: No one ever...

Margot Asquith: No one ever...

No one ever pruned me. If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days,...

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Pearl Buck: Be born anywhere,...

Pearl Buck: Be born anywhere,...

Be born anywhere, little embryo novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden...

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Carson McCullers: There's nothing that...

Carson McCullers: There's nothing that...

There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old...

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Judy Blume: Let children read...

Judy Blume: Let children read...

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't...

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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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Rose Elizabeth Bird: My role isn't...

Rose Elizabeth Bird: My role isn't...

My role isn't to be politically smart. My role is to do what's right under the constitution. And if that's politically...

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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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