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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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Hortense Calisher: A happy childhood...

Hortense Calisher: A happy childhood...

A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a...

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Mary Church Terrell: [T]he chasm between...

Mary Church Terrell: [T]he chasm between...

[T]he chasm between the principles upon which this Government was founded, in which it still professes to believe, 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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Lucy Stone: The politician is...

Lucy Stone: The politician is...

The politician is the creature of the public sentiment -- never goes ahead of it because he depends on it . ....

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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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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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Maya Angelou: The quality of...

Maya Angelou: The quality of...

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when...

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Mary Pettibone Poole: Culture is what...

Mary Pettibone Poole: Culture is what...

Culture is what your butcher would have if he were a surgeon.

Source: A Glass Eye...

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Susan Sontag: A photograph is...

Susan Sontag: A photograph is...

A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace,...

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Amelia Barr: The fate of...

Amelia Barr: The fate of...

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.

Source: The Belle...

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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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Phyllis Battelle: If you haven't...

Phyllis Battelle: If you haven't...

If you haven't had at least a slight poetic crack in the heart, you have been cheated by...

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May Sarton: Don't forget that...

May Sarton: Don't forget that...

Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness,...

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Beth Henley: That's what I...

Beth Henley: That's what I...

That's what I like about [smoking] . . . taking a drag off of death, Mmm! Gives me a sense of controlling my own...

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Beth Henley: He started hating...

Beth Henley: He started hating...

He started hating me, cause I couldn't laugh at his jokes. I just started finding it impossible to laugh at his jokes...

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Terry McMillan: It takes me...

Terry McMillan: It takes me...

It takes me forever to say my prayers these days, but I don't care, because this time around, I want to make sure God...

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Vita Sackville-West: Among the many...

Vita Sackville-West: Among the many...

Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin...

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Vita Sackville-West: I suppose the...

Vita Sackville-West: I suppose the...

I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to...

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Ruth Etting: It pays to...

Ruth Etting: It pays to...

It pays to advertise
That's what they say,
and so I'll advertise my heart.


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