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Jean Kerr: Do you know...

Jean Kerr: Do you know...

Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to...

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Erma Bombeck: I do not...

Erma Bombeck: I do not...

I do not participate in a sport with ambulances at the bottom of the hill.

Source:...

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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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Jean Kerr: You don't seem...

Jean Kerr: You don't seem...

You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy....

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Fran Lebowitz: The opposite of...

Fran Lebowitz: The opposite of...

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Thus far, women...

Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Thus far, women...

Thus far, women have been the mere echoes of men. Our laws and constitutions, our creeds and codes, and the customs...

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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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Isabelle Eberhardt: The farther behind...

Isabelle Eberhardt: The farther behind...

The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.

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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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Barbara Ehrenreich: Given the cultural...

Barbara Ehrenreich: Given the cultural...

Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to...

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Barbara Ehrenreich: Heads of state...

Barbara Ehrenreich: Heads of state...

Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho...

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Gail Sheehy: All changes, even...

Gail Sheehy: All changes, even...

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must...

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Pamela Hansford Johnson: I have always...

Pamela Hansford Johnson: I have always...

I have always wanted to write in such a way that will make people think, Why, I've always thought that but never found...

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Doris Lilly: The women [who...

Doris Lilly: The women [who...

The women [who marry millionaires] usually do everything for their men. They pack for them, make their phone calls and...

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Jane Welsh Carlyle: The surest way...

Jane Welsh Carlyle: The surest way...

The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of...

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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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Gretel Ehrlich: Leaves are verbs...

Gretel Ehrlich: Leaves are verbs...

Leaves are verbs that conjugate the seasons.

Source: The Solace of Open Spaces,...

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Elizabeth Janeway: As long as...

Elizabeth Janeway: As long as...

As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in...

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Dorothy Height: The black woman...

Dorothy Height: The black woman...

The black woman had had to struggle against being a person of great strength.

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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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