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Kate Seredy: Kill the snake...

Kate Seredy: Kill the snake...

Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your...

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Fay Weldon: The New Women!...

Fay Weldon: The New Women!...

The New Women! I could barely recognize them as being of the same sex as myself . . . .They are satiated by...

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Toni Morrison: If there's a...

Toni Morrison: If there's a...

If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write...

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Sandra Day O'Connor: It is difficult...

Sandra Day O'Connor: It is difficult...

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful...

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Natalie Clifford Barney: It is time...

Natalie Clifford Barney: It is time...

It is time for dead languages to be quiet.

Source: In Adam, no. 299, On Writing and...

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Margaret Atwood: A voice is...

Margaret Atwood: A voice is...

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and...

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Katherine Anne Porter: You have to...

Katherine Anne Porter: You have to...

You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have...

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Willa Cather: There are only...

Willa Cather: There are only...

There are only two or three human stories and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never...

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Mary Robinson: A culture is...

Mary Robinson: A culture is...

A culture is not an abstract thing. It is a living, evolving process. The aim is to push beyond standard-setting and...

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Elizabeth II: It's all to...

Elizabeth II: It's all to...

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

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Jennie Jerome Churchill: Treat your friends...

Jennie Jerome Churchill: Treat your friends...

Treat your friends as you do your picture, and place them in their best light.

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Kate Millett: Many women do...

Kate Millett: Many women do...

Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of...

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Sarah Ban Breathnach: Let's choose today...

Sarah Ban Breathnach: Let's choose today...

Let's choose today to quench our thirst for the good life we thinks others lead by acknowledging the good that already...

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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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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: I do not...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: I do not...

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone...

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Barbara Ehrenreich: There is the...

Barbara Ehrenreich: There is the...

There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of...

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Simone de Beauvoir: Change your life...

Simone de Beauvoir: Change your life...

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Source:...

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Simone de Beauvoir: Defending the truth...

Simone de Beauvoir: Defending the truth...

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in...

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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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Marian Wright Edelman: Don't feel entitled...

Marian Wright Edelman: Don't feel entitled...

Don't feel entitled to anything you don't sweat and struggle for.

Source: The...

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