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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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Brenda Ueland: Know that it...

Brenda Ueland: Know that it...

Know that it is good to work. Work with love, and think of liking it when you do it. It is easy and interesting. It is...

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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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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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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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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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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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Olympia Brown: Fortuitous circumstances constitute...

Olympia Brown: Fortuitous circumstances constitute...

Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an...

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Anna Jameson: What we truly...

Anna Jameson: What we truly...

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the...

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Anita Brookner: You never know...

Anita Brookner: You never know...

You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew...

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Susan Sontag: A large part...

Susan Sontag: A large part...

A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a...

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Judith Martin: The simple idea...

Judith Martin: The simple idea...

The simple idea that everyone needs a reasonable amount of challenging work in his or her life, and also a personal...

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Dorothea Brande: Envisioning the end...

Dorothea Brande: Envisioning the end...

Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Lynn Caine: Widow is a...

Lynn Caine: Widow is a...

Widow is a harsh and hurtful word. It comes from the Sanskrit and it means empty. I have been empty too...

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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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Martha Beck: Any transition serious...

Martha Beck: Any transition serious...

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of...

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Diane Sawyer: Whatever you want...

Diane Sawyer: Whatever you want...

Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that...

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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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Pamela Hansford Johnson: There are few...

Pamela Hansford Johnson: There are few...

There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems demonstrably...

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