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Helen Keller: I am only...

Helen Keller: I am only...

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do...

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Helen Keller: A child ....

Helen Keller: A child ....

A child . . . must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will to...

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Rose Kennedy: I looked on...

Rose Kennedy: I looked on...

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and...

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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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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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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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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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Alice James: Truly nothing is...

Alice James: Truly nothing is...

Truly nothing is to be expected but the unexpected.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Barbara Smith: One of the...

Barbara Smith: One of the...

One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and...

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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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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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Meg Greenfield: The greatest harm...

Meg Greenfield: The greatest harm...

The greatest harm of all the gore on the tube is that it may dull our response to the real...

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Dorothy Uhnak: It was all...

Dorothy Uhnak: It was all...

It was all in the orchestration, he claimed: in knowing how and where to pitch each and every particular argument; who...

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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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Fanny Burney: . . ....

Fanny Burney: . . ....

. . . men seldom risk their lives where an escape is without hope of recompense.

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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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Elizabeth Janeway: If one is...

Elizabeth Janeway: If one is...

If one is going to change things, one has to make a fuss and catch the eye of the world.

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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 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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