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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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Maya Angelou: The horizon leans...

Maya Angelou: The horizon leans...

The horizon leans forward,
Offering you space to place new steps of change.


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Ann Landers: If you want...

Ann Landers: If you want...

If you want to catch trout, don't fish in a herring barrel.

Source: In The...

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Mary Pettibone Poole: There are no...

Mary Pettibone Poole: There are no...

There are no old people nowadays; they are either 'wonderful for their age' or dead.

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Anna Jameson: A man may...

Anna Jameson: A man may...

A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.

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Anita Brookner: You never know...

Anita Brookner: You never know...

You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew...

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Laura Ingalls Wilder: All those golden...

Laura Ingalls Wilder: All those golden...

All those golden autumn days the sky was full of wings. Wings beating low over the blue water of Silver Lake, wings...

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Diane Trilling: Touch a university...

Diane Trilling: Touch a university...

Touch a university with hostile hands and the blood you draw is prompt, copious, and real.

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Susan Sontag: A large part...

Susan Sontag: A large part...

A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a...

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Amelia Barr: . . ....

Amelia Barr: . . ....

. . . it is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

Source: All the Days of...

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Germaine Greer: Energy is the...

Germaine Greer: Energy is the...

Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a...

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Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: No man chooses...

Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: No man chooses...

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness.

Source:...

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Kate Millett: The image of...

Kate Millett: The image of...

The image of the woman as we know it is an image created by men and fashioned to suit their...

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: If you surrender...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: If you surrender...

If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those...

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Dorothea Brande: The Wright brothers...

Dorothea Brande: The Wright brothers...

The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.

Source: In The...

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Simone de Beauvoir: It's frightening to...

Simone de Beauvoir: It's frightening to...

It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the...

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Dorothea Brande: All that is...

Dorothea Brande: All that is...

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is to -- act as if it were impossible to...

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Erma Bombeck: The bad times...

Erma Bombeck: The bad times...

The bad times I can handle. It's the good times that drive me crazy. When is the other shoe going to...

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Helen Keller: Not the senses...

Helen Keller: Not the senses...

Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom.

Source: In The...

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Dorothy Parker: You can't teach...

Dorothy Parker: You can't teach...

You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.

Source: In The Algonquin Wits, ed. by...

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