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Marsha Sinetar: You may feel...

Marsha Sinetar: You may feel...

You may feel like dwelling on your limits or your fears. Don't do it. A perfect prescription for a squandered,...

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Minna Thomas Antrim: A fool bolts...

Minna Thomas Antrim: A fool bolts...

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

Source: Naked Truth and...

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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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Antoinette Brown Blackwell: There were angry...

Antoinette Brown Blackwell: There were angry...

There were angry men confronting me and I caught the flashing of defiant eyes, but above me and within me, there was a...

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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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Virginia Woolf: My own brain...

Virginia Woolf: My own brain...

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery --always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then...

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Julia Ward Howe: Disarm, disarm. The...

Julia Ward Howe: Disarm, disarm. The...

Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence...

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Marian Wright Edelman: No person has...

Marian Wright Edelman: No person has...

No person has the right to rain on your dreams.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Marion Woodman: The body is...

Marion Woodman: The body is...

The body is like an elaborate metaphor. One may be able to taste and not swallow, like the anorexic, or to swallow...

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Marion Woodman: The connection between...

Marion Woodman: The connection between...

The connection between conscious and unconscious poses particular problems in the dancer because the body is the soul...

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Kate Chopin: The voice of...

Kate Chopin: The voice of...

The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close...

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Alice Roosevelt Longworth: I've always believed...

Alice Roosevelt Longworth: I've always believed...

I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested...

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Helena Petrova Blavatsky: This idea of...

Helena Petrova Blavatsky: This idea of...

This idea of passing one's whole life in moral idleness, and having one's hardest work and duty done by another --...

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Irene Thomas: The cello is...

Irene Thomas: The cello is...

The cello is not one of my favourite instruments. It has such a lugubrious sound, like someone reading a...

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Shana Alexander: The law changes...

Shana Alexander: The law changes...

The law changes and flows like water, and ... the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing...

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Marjorie Holmes: You don't always...

Marjorie Holmes: You don't always...

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Source: In The...

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Marsha Sinetar: Change can either...

Marsha Sinetar: Change can either...

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block...

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: There are no...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: There are no...

There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier...

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Simone de Beauvoir: The fact that...

Simone de Beauvoir: The fact that...

The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human...

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Judith Crist: More bomb than...

Judith Crist: More bomb than...

More bomb than bombshell.

Source: On Carroll Baker performance in Baby Doll; in If...

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