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Lucy Stone: To make the...

Lucy Stone: To make the...

To make the public sentiment, on the side of all that is just and true and noble, is the highest use of...

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Dora Russell: We have heeded...

Dora Russell: We have heeded...

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only love...

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Harriet Van Horne: Cooking is like...

Harriet Van Horne: Cooking is like...

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.

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Mary Roberts Rinehart: Life is a...

Mary Roberts Rinehart: Life is a...

Life is a little work, a little sleep, a little love and it is all over.

Source: In...

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Eleanor Roosevelt: You can't move...

Eleanor Roosevelt: You can't move...

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do...

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Golda Meir: At work, you...

Golda Meir: At work, you...

At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such...

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Barbara Mikulski: The two-martinis-for-lunch bunch...

Barbara Mikulski: The two-martinis-for-lunch bunch...

The two-martinis-for-lunch bunch would love for us to fight each other over the resources they have made...

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Elizabeth II: It is easy...

Elizabeth II: It is easy...

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular...

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Anna Julia Cooper: . . ....

Anna Julia Cooper: . . ....

. . . women are more quiet. They don't feel called to mount a barrel and harangue by the hour every time they imagine...

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Paule Marshall: Once a great...

Paule Marshall: Once a great...

Once a great wrong has been done, it never dies. People speak the words of peace, but their hearts do not forgive....

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Margaret Walker: When I was...

Margaret Walker: When I was...

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a...

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Iris Murdoch: We live in...

Iris Murdoch: We live in...

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find...

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Lydia M Child: The eye of...

Lydia M Child: The eye of...

The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.

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Margaret Halsey: In some circumstances,...

Margaret Halsey: In some circumstances,...

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.

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Anne Sophie Swetchine: The mind wears...

Anne Sophie Swetchine: The mind wears...

The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.

Source: In...

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Zelda Fitzgerald: Why do we...

Zelda Fitzgerald: Why do we...

Why do we spend years using up our bodies to nurture our minds with experience and find our minds turning then to our...

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Fay Weldon: Worry less about...

Fay Weldon: Worry less about...

Worry less about what other people think about you, and more about what you think about...

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Betty Smith: Look at everything...

Betty Smith: Look at everything...

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be...

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Edna St Vincent Millay: The soul can...

Edna St Vincent Millay: The soul can...

The soul can split the sky in two,
And let the face of God shine through.


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Beth Henley: I find it...

Beth Henley: I find it...

I find it fascinating to think about what the world is going to be like when people won't talk...

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