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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Nothing contributes so...

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Nothing contributes so...

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its...

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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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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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Anne Bronte: Keep guard over...

Anne Bronte: Keep guard over...

Keep guard over your eyes and ears as the inlets of your heart, and over your lips as the outlets, lest they betray...

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Fawn M Brodie: A passion for...

Fawn M Brodie: A passion for...

A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a...

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Margot Asquith: It is easier...

Margot Asquith: It is easier...

It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.

Source: More or Less...

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Margot Asquith: It is always...

Margot Asquith: It is always...

It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race...

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Annie Dillard: The sense impressions...

Annie Dillard: The sense impressions...

The sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brain. This is philosophically interesting in a...

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Jane Austen: A person who...

Jane Austen: A person who...

A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

Source: Miss...

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Madeleine L'Engle: To be born...

Madeleine L'Engle: To be born...

To be born is to start the journey towards death.

Source:
-- Madeleine L'Engle,...

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Barbara Jordan: If you're going...

Barbara Jordan: If you're going...

If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.

Source: In...

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Elizabeth II: Work is the...

Elizabeth II: Work is the...

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

Source: In Quotable...

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Dolores Huerta: We criticize and...

Dolores Huerta: We criticize and...

We criticize and separate ourselves from the process. We've got to jump right in there with both...

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Margaret Sanger: [The woman's] mission...

Margaret Sanger: [The woman's] mission...

[The woman's] mission is not to enhance the masculine spirit, but to express the feminine; hers is not to preserve a...

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Helen Keller: I long to...

Helen Keller: I long to...

I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great...

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Linda Ellerbee: How is it...

Linda Ellerbee: How is it...

How is it that so often . . . I get the feeling I've worked hard to learn something I already know, or knew,...

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Harriet Van Horne: Closing these two...

Harriet Van Horne: Closing these two...

Closing these two books, a reader senses that Joan Crawford, idol of an age, would have made an exemplary prison...

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Lucy Stone: The politician is...

Lucy Stone: The politician is...

The politician is the creature of the public sentiment -- never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . ....

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Olympia Brown: He who never...

Olympia Brown: He who never...

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the...

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Florida Scott-Maxwell: Life does not...

Florida Scott-Maxwell: Life does not...

Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys...

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