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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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Alice Embree: Shortly after the...

Alice Embree: Shortly after the...

Shortly after the turn of the century, America marshalled her resources, contracted painfully, and gave birth to the...

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Margaret Anderson: . . ....

Margaret Anderson: . . ....

. . . the great thing to learn about life is, first, not to do what you don't want to do, and, second, to do what you...

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Judith Crist: More bomb than...

Judith Crist: More bomb than...

More bomb than bombshell.

Source: On Carroll Baker performance in Baby Doll; in If...

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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: I do not...

Erma Bombeck: I do not...

I do not participate in a sport with ambulances at the bottom of the hill.

Source:...

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Jane Howard: Call it a...

Jane Howard: Call it a...

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need...

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Jeanne-Marie Roland: It is for...

Jeanne-Marie Roland: It is for...

It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the...

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Thus far, women...

Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Thus far, women...

Thus far, women have been the mere echoes of men. Our laws and constitutions, our creeds and codes, and the customs...

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Doris Lessing: In the writing...

Doris Lessing: In the writing...

In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest. I...

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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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Ada Louise Huxtable: A disaster where...

Ada Louise Huxtable: A disaster where...

A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.

Source: On...

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Sojourner Truth: It is the...

Sojourner Truth: It is the...

It is the mind that makes the body.

Source:
-- Sojourner Truth, (Nov 18...

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Dolores Huerta: Among poor people,...

Dolores Huerta: Among poor people,...

Among poor people, there's not any question about women being strong -- even stronger than men -- they work in the...

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Charlotte Bunch: America is like...

Charlotte Bunch: America is like...

America is like an unfaithful lover who promised us more than we got.

Source:...

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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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Fanny Burney: . . ....

Fanny Burney: . . ....

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

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Catherine Drinker Bowen: Writers seldom choose...

Catherine Drinker Bowen: Writers seldom choose...

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never...

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Lillian Carter: I don't think...

Lillian Carter: I don't think...

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta...

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George Eliot: What a wretched...

George Eliot: What a wretched...

What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind --the uglier we get in the eyes of...

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