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Sojourner Truth: Religion without humanity...

Sojourner Truth: Religion without humanity...

Religion without humanity is a poor human stuff.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Ernestine L Rose: If you allow...

Ernestine L Rose: If you allow...

If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up,...

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Maya Angelou: There's a world...

Maya Angelou: There's a world...

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.

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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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Laura Ingalls Wilder: I am beginning...

Laura Ingalls Wilder: I am beginning...

I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after...

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Kate Chopin: To be an...

Kate Chopin: To be an...

To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts -- absolute gifts -- which have been acquired by one's own...

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Rebecca West: Journalism - an...

Rebecca West: Journalism - an...

Journalism - an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.

Source: The New...

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Rebecca West: There is no...

Rebecca West: There is no...

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital...

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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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Amelia Barr: Whatever the scientists...

Amelia Barr: Whatever the scientists...

Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the...

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Amelia Barr: Events that are...

Amelia Barr: Events that are...

Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we...

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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: The 3 questions...

Fran Lebowitz: The 3 questions...

The 3 questions of greatest concern are:, 1) Is it attractive?, 2) Is it amusing?, 3) Does it know its...

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Dorothy Thompson: Inventive man has...

Dorothy Thompson: Inventive man has...

Inventive man has invented nothing -- nothing from scratch. If he has produced a machine that in motion overcomes the...

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Dorothy Dix: Women have changed...

Dorothy Dix: Women have changed...

Women have changed in their relationship to men, but men stand pat just where Adam did when it comes to dealing with...

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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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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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Grace Paley: I often see...

Grace Paley: I often see...

I often see through things right to the apparition itself.

Source: Enormous Changes...

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Carry Nation: Men are nicotine...

Carry Nation: Men are nicotine...

Men are nicotine soaked, beer besmirched, whiskey greased, red-eyed devils.

Source:...

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