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Mary Astell: Women are not...

Mary Astell: Women are not...

Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their chains,...

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Jane Addams: Civilization is a...

Jane Addams: Civilization is a...

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

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Billie Jean King: It's really impossible...

Billie Jean King: It's really impossible...

It's really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you're a child, still playing a game. But on the...

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Anouk Aimee: It's so much...

Anouk Aimee: It's so much...

It's so much better to desire than to have. . . . The moment of desire, when you know something is going to happen --...

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Ella T Grasso: I would not...

Ella T Grasso: I would not...

I would not be President because I do not aspire to be President. But l'm sure that a woman will be President. When? I...

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Annie Elizabeth Delany: Turning one hundred...

Annie Elizabeth Delany: Turning one hundred...

Turning one hundred was the worst birthday of my life. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. Turning 101 was not so...

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M F K Fisher: In America we...

M F K Fisher: In America we...

In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of flavour. We are as a nation...

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Shirley Chisholm: There is little...

Shirley Chisholm: There is little...

There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. ...

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Mary McLeod Bethune: When they...

Mary McLeod Bethune: When they...

When they learn of Shakespeare and Goethe, we must teach them of Pushkin and Dumas . . . Whatever the white man has...

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Mary McLeod Bethune: I never stop...

Mary McLeod Bethune: I never stop...

I never stop to plan. I take things step by step.

Source: Faith That Moved a Dump...

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Mary McLeod Bethune: From the first,...

Mary McLeod Bethune: From the first,...

From the first, I made my learning, what little it was, useful every way I could.

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Carter Heyward: I'm a priest,...

Carter Heyward: I'm a priest,...

I'm a priest, not a priestess. Priestess implies mumbo jumbo and all sorts of pagan goings-on. Those who oppose us...

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Marianne Williamson: Joy is what...

Marianne Williamson: Joy is what...

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

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Marianne Williamson: Birth is violent,...

Marianne Williamson: Birth is violent,...

Birth is violent, whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea.

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Ethel Percy Andrus: We learn the...

Ethel Percy Andrus: We learn the...

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to...

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Amelia Earhart: It seems to...

Amelia Earhart: It seems to...

It seems to me that the effect of having other interests beyond those exclusively domestic works well. The more one...

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Charleszetta Waddles: . ....

Charleszetta Waddles: . ....

. . . I believe that you cannot go any further than you can think. I certainly believe if you don't desire a thing,...

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Georgie Anne Geyer: It was when...

Georgie Anne Geyer: It was when...

It was when 'reporters' became 'journalists' and when 'objectivity' gave way to 'searching for the truth,' that an...

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Greta Garbo: There are many...

Greta Garbo: There are many...

There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows,...

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Polly Adler: The only difference...

Polly Adler: The only difference...

The only difference between them and my girls is that my girls gave a man his money's...

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