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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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Olympia Brown: He who never...

Olympia Brown: He who never...

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the...

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Rebecca West: Men must be...

Rebecca West: Men must be...

Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain...

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Delphine de Girardin: Instinct is the...

Delphine de Girardin: Instinct is the...

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

Source: In Reader's Digest, 1 Oct 1972.
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Suzanne Curchod Necker: Worship your heroes...

Suzanne Curchod Necker: Worship your heroes...

Worship your heroes from afar; contact withers them.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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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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Anya Seton: The soul ....

Anya Seton: The soul ....

The soul . . . may have many symbols with which it reaches toward God.

Source: The...

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Dorothea Brande: All that is...

Dorothea Brande: All that is...

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is to -- act as if it were impossible to...

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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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Dolores Huerta: If you haven't...

Dolores Huerta: If you haven't...

If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.

Source: In...

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Charlotte Bunch: Feminism is an...

Charlotte Bunch: Feminism is an...

Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues.

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Kate Millett: If only no...

Kate Millett: If only no...

If only no one had told them I was mad. Then I wouldn't be.

Source: The Loony-Bin...

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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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Susan Faludi: The feminine woman...

Susan Faludi: The feminine woman...

The feminine woman is forever static and childlike. She is like the ballerina in an old-fashioned music box, her...

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Barbara Smith: This invisibility [of...

Barbara Smith: This invisibility [of...

This invisibility [of Black women], however, means that the opportunities for creative research are...

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Erma Bombeck: The bad times...

Erma Bombeck: The bad times...

The bad times I can handle. It's the good times that drive me crazy. When is the other shoe going to...

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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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Jane Howard: Call it a...

Jane Howard: Call it a...

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need...

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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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Linda Ellerbee: How is it...

Linda Ellerbee: How is it...

How is it that so often . . . I get the feeling I've worked hard to learn something I already know, or knew,...

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