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Elizabeth Janeway: In this nadir...

Elizabeth Janeway: In this nadir...

In this nadir of poetic repute, when the only verse that most people read from one year's end to the next is what...

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Marge Piercy: All women hustle....

Marge Piercy: All women hustle....

All women hustle. Women watch faces, voices, gestures, moods . . . She's the person who has to survive through...

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Eda LeShan: [O]ne can develop...

Eda LeShan: [O]ne can develop...

[O]ne can develop new capacities and strengths with which to meet the natural vicissitudes of living; that one may...

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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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Harriet Ann Jacobs: There are wrongs...

Harriet Ann Jacobs: There are wrongs...

There are wrongs which even the grave does not bury.

Source: Incidents in the Life...

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Margaret Anderson: . . ....

Margaret Anderson: . . ....

. . . the great thing to learn about life is, first, not to do what you don't want to do, and, second, to do what you...

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Barbara Smith: One of the...

Barbara Smith: One of the...

One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and...

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Abigail Van Buren: While forbidden fruit...

Abigail Van Buren: While forbidden fruit...

While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.

Source:...

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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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Mary Pettibone Poole: The next best...

Mary Pettibone Poole: The next best...

The next best thing to being clever is being able to quote someone who is.

Source:...

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Rebecca West: Men must be...

Rebecca West: Men must be...

Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain...

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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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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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Helen Keller: I am only...

Helen Keller: I am only...

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do...

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Barbara Walters: [Being a parent]...

Barbara Walters: [Being a parent]...

[Being a parent] is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a...

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Suzanne LaFollette: What its children...

Suzanne LaFollette: What its children...

What its children become, that will the community become.

Source: In Words of Women...

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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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Pearl Bailey: There are two...

Pearl Bailey: There are two...

There are two kinds of talents, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard....

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Gloria Vanderbilt: And it came...

Gloria Vanderbilt: And it came...

And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong -- to belong to my...

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