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Wilma Pearl Mankiller: She likened her...

Wilma Pearl Mankiller: She likened her...

She likened her job to running a small country, a medium corporation, and being a social...

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Wendy Wasserstein: No matter how...

Wendy Wasserstein: No matter how...

No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's...

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Jeanne-Marie Roland: The feeble tremble...

Jeanne-Marie Roland: The feeble tremble...

The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct...

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Jane Addams: I do not...

Jane Addams: I do not...

I do not believe that women are better than men. We have not wrecked railroads, nor corrupted legislature, nor done...

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Marie Curie: Be less curious...

Marie Curie: Be less curious...

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Clare Boothe Luce: Lying increases the...

Clare Boothe Luce: Lying increases the...

Lying increases the creative faculties . . . It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature...

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Corrie Ten Boom: Worry is a...

Corrie Ten Boom: Worry is a...

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

Source:...

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Barbara Bush: Never lose sight...

Barbara Bush: Never lose sight...

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people --...

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Shirley Hufstedler: The rhythm of...

Shirley Hufstedler: The rhythm of...

The rhythm of life is intricate but orderly, tenacious but fragile. To keep that in mind is to build the key to...

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Ivy Baker Priest: Any woman who...

Ivy Baker Priest: Any woman who...

Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way of two personalities, like two...

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Mary Frances Berry: My teachers treated...

Mary Frances Berry: My teachers treated...

My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.

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Michelle Obama: Your story is...

Michelle Obama: Your story is...

Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.

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Carol Moseley-Braun: It's hard to...

Carol Moseley-Braun: It's hard to...

It's hard to be the first. It's almost as if I'm subject to a different level of...

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Geraldine Ferraro: You people married...

Geraldine Ferraro: You people married...

You people married to Italian men, you know what it's like.

Source: On her...

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Clara Barton: Economy, prudence, and...

Clara Barton: Economy, prudence, and...

Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their...

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Anne Sullivan: Obedience is the...

Anne Sullivan: Obedience is the...

Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the...

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Sylvia Ashton-Warner: When love turns...

Sylvia Ashton-Warner: When love turns...

When love turns away, now, I don't follow it. I sit and suffer, unprotesting, until I feel the tread of another...

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Elizabeth Blackwell: It is well...

Elizabeth Blackwell: It is well...

It is well worth the efforts of a life-time to have attained knowledge which justifies an attack on the root of all...

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Joanna Field: I came...

Joanna Field: I came...

I came to the conclusion then that continual mindfulness. . . must mean, not a sergeantmajor-like drilling of...

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Charlotte Forten Grimke: Let me not...

Charlotte Forten Grimke: Let me not...

Let me not forget again that I came not here for friendly sympathy or for anything else but to work, and to work hard....

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