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Clementine Paddleford: Beer is the...

Clementine Paddleford: Beer is the...

Beer is the Danish national drink, and the Danish national weakness is another beer.

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Shana Alexander: Until quite recently...

Shana Alexander: Until quite recently...

Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts . . .

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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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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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Sara Jeannette Duncan: One loses many...

Sara Jeannette Duncan: One loses many...

One loses many laughs by not laughing at oneself.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Rebecca West: The point is...

Rebecca West: The point is...

The point is that nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the...

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Maria Weston Chapman: Grudge no expense...

Maria Weston Chapman: Grudge no expense...

Grudge no expense -- yield to no opposition -- forget fatigue -- till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the...

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Harriet Tubman: There was one...

Harriet Tubman: There was one...

There was one of two things I had a right to, liberty, or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other; for...

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Margaret Fuller: The especial genius...

Margaret Fuller: The especial genius...

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, and spiritual in...

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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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Mary Harris Mother Jones: I am not...

Mary Harris Mother Jones: I am not...

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I...

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Doris Lessing: In the writing...

Doris Lessing: In the writing...

In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest. I...

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Helena Petrova Blavatsky: Help Nature and...

Helena Petrova Blavatsky: Help Nature and...

Help Nature and work on with her; and Nature will regard thee as one of her creators . . . she will lay bare before...

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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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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: If, with the...

Dorothy Parker: If, with the...

If, with the literate, I am
Impelled to try an epigram,
I never seek to take the credit;
We all assume that...

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Martha Beck: Whoever said love...

Martha Beck: Whoever said love...

Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest...

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Irene Thomas: The cello is...

Irene Thomas: The cello is...

The cello is not one of my favourite instruments. It has such a lugubrious sound, like someone reading a...

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Marie de Sevigne: . . ....

Marie de Sevigne: . . ....

. . . this life is a perpetual chequer-work of good and evil, pleasure and pain. When in possession of what we desire,...

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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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