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Marilyn French: Women are afraid...

Marilyn French: Women are afraid...

Women are afraid in a world in which almost half the population bears the guise of the predator, in which no...

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Elizabeth Janeway: If one is...

Elizabeth Janeway: If one is...

If one is going to change things, one has to make a fuss and catch the eye of the world.

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Hortense Calisher: A happy childhood...

Hortense Calisher: A happy childhood...

A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a...

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Carry Nation: Who hath sorrow?...

Carry Nation: Who hath sorrow?...

Who hath sorrow? Who hath woe?
They who do not answer no;
They whose feet to sin incline
While they tarry at...

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Julia Ward Howe: Disarm, disarm. The...

Julia Ward Howe: Disarm, disarm. The...

Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence...

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Marian Wright Edelman: If you don't...

Marian Wright Edelman: If you don't...

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step...

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Marian Wright Edelman: Somehow we are...

Marian Wright Edelman: Somehow we are...

Somehow we are going to have to develop a concept of enough for those at the top and at the bottom so that the...

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Susan Sontag: Ambition if it...

Susan Sontag: Ambition if it...

Ambition if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.

Source: The...

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Rebecca West: If the whole...

Rebecca West: If the whole...

If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: 'It seemed like a good idea at...

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Gail Sheehy: If we don't...

Gail Sheehy: If we don't...

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

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Julia Child: Non cooks think...

Julia Child: Non cooks think...

Non cooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, well, so...

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Liz Smith: Do not join...

Liz Smith: Do not join...

Do not join encounter groups. If you enjoy being made to feel inadequate, call your...

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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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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.

Source:...

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Marie de Sevigne: It is sometimes...

Marie de Sevigne: It is sometimes...

It is sometimes best to slip over thoughts and not go to the bottom of them.
(Il faut glisser sur les pense?s et ne...

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Helen Lawrenson: A skirt is...

Helen Lawrenson: A skirt is...

A skirt is no obstacle to extemporaneous sex, but it is physically impossible to make love to a girl while she is...

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Mignon McLaughlin: If I knew...

Mignon McLaughlin: If I knew...

If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.

Source: The Second...

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Martha Gellhorn: I see mysteries...

Martha Gellhorn: I see mysteries...

I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical...

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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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Rona Barrett: Sophia Loren is...

Rona Barrett: Sophia Loren is...

Sophia Loren is the embodiment of what a woman should be -- the epitome of femaleness. Most of the young people today...

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