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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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Barbara Walters: Trust your gut....

Barbara Walters: Trust your gut....

Trust your gut.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for Success, by Power Dynamics...

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Patricia Fripp: People who concentrate...

Patricia Fripp: People who concentrate...

People who concentrate on giving good service always get more personal satisfaction as well as better business. How...

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Julia Child: I think the...

Julia Child: I think the...

I think the inner person is the most important. . . . I would like to see an invention that keeps the mind alert. ...

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Harriet Tubman: I looked at...

Harriet Tubman: I looked at...

I looked at my hands, to see if I was de same person now I was free. Dere was such a glory ober eberything, de sun...

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Dorothy Height: When you're a...

Dorothy Height: When you're a...

When you're a black woman, you seldom get to do what you just want to do; you always do what you have to...

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Hannah Whitall Smith: Faith, like sight...

Hannah Whitall Smith: Faith, like sight...

Faith, like sight is nothing apart from God. You might as well shut your eyes and look inside, and see whether you...

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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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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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Dora Russell: We want better...

Dora Russell: We want better...

We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.

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Susan Faludi: The demand that...

Susan Faludi: The demand that...

The demand that women return to femininity is a demand that the cultural gears shift into reverse, that we back up to...

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Anne Frank: Just imagine how...

Anne Frank: Just imagine how...

Just imagine how interesting it would be if I were to publish a romance of the Secret Annexe. The title alone would be...

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Maya Angelou: Black women have...

Maya Angelou: Black women have...

Black women have not historically stood in the pulpit, but that doesn't undermine the fact that they built the...

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Kate Chopin: There are some...

Kate Chopin: There are some...

There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the...

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Susan Sontag: Books are funny...

Susan Sontag: Books are funny...

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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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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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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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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Gail Sheehy: Over the next...

Gail Sheehy: Over the next...

Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.

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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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