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Gail Godwin: Dreams say what...

Gail Godwin: Dreams say what...

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

Source: Dream...

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Rita Mae Brown: A peacefulness follows...

Rita Mae Brown: A peacefulness follows...

A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.

Source: Sudden Death
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Sandra Day O'Connor: It is difficult...

Sandra Day O'Connor: It is difficult...

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful...

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Gertrude Stein: Nature is commonplace....

Gertrude Stein: Nature is commonplace....

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

Source: In My Autobiography,...

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George Sand: One approaches the...

George Sand: One approaches the...

One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.

Source:...

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Flannery O'Connor: The novel is...

Flannery O'Connor: The novel is...

The novel is an art form and when you use it for anything other than art, you pervert it.

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Colette: It is wise...

Colette: It is wise...

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.

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Adelle Davis: Thousands upon thousands...

Adelle Davis: Thousands upon thousands...

Thousands upon thousands of persons have studied disease. Almost no one has studied...

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Jane Harrison: To be meek,...

Jane Harrison: To be meek,...

To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be...

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Lucy Stone: Because I know...

Lucy Stone: Because I know...

Because I know that I shall suffer, shall I, for this, like Lot's wife, turn back? No, mother, if in this hour of the...

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Olympia Brown: Fortuitous circumstances constitute...

Olympia Brown: Fortuitous circumstances constitute...

Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an...

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Marya Mannes: In our society...

Marya Mannes: In our society...

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend...

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Simone de Beauvoir: Defending the truth...

Simone de Beauvoir: Defending the truth...

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in...

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Gail Sheehy: Growth demands a...

Gail Sheehy: Growth demands a...

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Dorothy Height: The black woman...

Dorothy Height: The black woman...

The black woman had had to struggle against being a person of great strength.

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Dorothy Day: In fact, to...

Dorothy Day: In fact, to...

In fact, to this very day, common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just...

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Charlotte Bunch: Our very strength...

Charlotte Bunch: Our very strength...

Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy; our existence challenges its...

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Barbara Walters: Trust your gut....

Barbara Walters: Trust your gut....

Trust your gut.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for Success, by Power Dynamics...

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Dorothy Uhnak: It was all...

Dorothy Uhnak: It was all...

It was all in the orchestration, he claimed: in knowing how and where to pitch each and every particular argument; who...

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Catherine Drinker Bowen: For your born...

Catherine Drinker Bowen: For your born...

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right...

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