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Ellen Key: For success in...

Ellen Key: For success in...

For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed...

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Christina Baldwin: Spiritual love is...

Christina Baldwin: Spiritual love is...

Spiritual love is a position of standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the...

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Maya Angelou: I made the...

Maya Angelou: I made the...

I made the decision to quit show business. Give up the skintight dresses and manicured smiles. The false concern over...

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Dorothy Parker: I had been...

Dorothy Parker: I had been...

I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives' tales about the way men would instantly forsake a beautiful woman to...

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Marie de Sevigne: . . .the...

Marie de Sevigne: . . .the...

. . .the most astonishing, the most surprising, the most marvelous, the most miraculous. . . the greatest, the least,...

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: There are no...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: There are no...

There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier...

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Simone de Beauvoir: The fact that...

Simone de Beauvoir: The fact that...

The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human...

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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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Barbara Ehrenreich: A free-enterprise economy...

Barbara Ehrenreich: A free-enterprise economy...

A free-enterprise economy depends only on markets, and according to the most advanced mathematical macroeconomic...

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Clara McBride Hale: Until I die,...

Clara McBride Hale: Until I die,...

Until I die, I'm going to keep doing. My people need me. They need somebody that's not taking from them and is...

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Jane Addams: Unless our conception...

Jane Addams: Unless our conception...

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest...

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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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Harriet Tubman: I had crossed...

Harriet Tubman: I had crossed...

I had crossed de line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but dere was no one to welcome me to de land...

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Sojourner Truth: It is the...

Sojourner Truth: It is the...

It is the mind that makes the body.

Source:
-- Sojourner Truth, (Nov 18...

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Ernestine L Rose: If you allow...

Ernestine L Rose: If you allow...

If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up,...

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Dolores Huerta: Among poor people,...

Dolores Huerta: Among poor people,...

Among poor people, there's not any question about women being strong -- even stronger than men -- they work in the...

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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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Margaret Sanger: [The woman's] mission...

Margaret Sanger: [The woman's] mission...

[The woman's] mission is not to enhance the masculine spirit, but to express the feminine; hers is not to preserve a...

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Judith Crist: In this era...

Judith Crist: In this era...

In this era of affluence and of permissiveness, we have, in all but cultural areas, bred a nation of overprivileged...

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Judith Crist: More bomb than...

Judith Crist: More bomb than...

More bomb than bombshell.

Source: On Carroll Baker performance in Baby Doll; in If...

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