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Gail Sheehy: Creativity can be...

Gail Sheehy: Creativity can be...

Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.

Source: In Artists 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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Mary Pettibone Poole: People who are...

Mary Pettibone Poole: People who are...

People who are always making allowances for themselves soon go bankrupt.

Source: A...

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Kate Chopin: The past was...

Kate Chopin: The past was...

The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a mystery which she never...

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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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Christiane Collange: The majority of...

Christiane Collange: The majority of...

The majority of women commit the strategic error of attempting to excel in a maximum of fields in order to satisfy all...

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Fran Lebowitz: Ask your child...

Fran Lebowitz: Ask your child...

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

Source: Social...

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Erma Bombeck: Seize the moment....

Erma Bombeck: Seize the moment....

Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert...

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Anna Quindlen: New York City...

Anna Quindlen: New York City...

New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a...

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Dorothy Dix: Confession is always...

Dorothy Dix: Confession is always...

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment 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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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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Helena Petrova Blavatsky: Help Nature and...

Helena Petrova Blavatsky: Help Nature and...

Help Nature and work on with her; and Nature will regard thee as one of her creators . . . she will lay bare before...

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Martha Beck: Whoever said love...

Martha Beck: Whoever said love...

Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest...

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Barbara Walters: Trust your gut....

Barbara Walters: Trust your gut....

Trust your gut.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for Success, by Power Dynamics...

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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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Suzanne Curchod Necker: It is no...

Suzanne Curchod Necker: It is no...

It is no virtue to bear calamities if we do not feel them.

Source: In The Last Word...

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Christina Baldwin: Spiritual love is...

Christina Baldwin: Spiritual love is...

Spiritual love is a position of standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the...

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Colette Dowling: Now [the Cinderella...

Colette Dowling: Now [the Cinderella...

Now [the Cinderella Complex] tends to hit women after college . . . . When the first thrill of freedom subsides and...

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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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