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Ellen Swallow Richards: The Faculty [of...

Ellen Swallow Richards: The Faculty [of...

The Faculty [of Vassar] do not consider it a mere experiment any longer that girls can be educated as well as...

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Mother Teresa: To keep a...

Mother Teresa: To keep a...

To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.

Source: In Saints Among...

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Etty Hillesum: Sometimes the most...

Etty Hillesum: Sometimes the most...

Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards...

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Mary Daly: Women have had...

Mary Daly: Women have had...

Women have had the power of naming stolen from us. We have not been free to use our own power to name ourselves, the...

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Bonnie Blair: My parents put...

Bonnie Blair: My parents put...

My parents put skates on me at age 2, the way it should be if you're serious, and I've always liked...

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Billie Jean King: It's really impossible...

Billie Jean King: It's really impossible...

It's really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you're a child, still playing a game. But on the...

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Chris Evert Lloyd: Now that I'm...

Chris Evert Lloyd: Now that I'm...

Now that I'm losing some, I can see how tough I was -- the killer instinct, the single-mindedness, playing like a...

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Judith Martin: Ideological differences are...

Judith Martin: Ideological differences are...

Ideological differences are no excuse for rudeness.

Source: Miss Manner's Guide to...

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Mary Baker Eddy: Give up the...

Mary Baker Eddy: Give up the...

Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly...

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Susan RoAne: The rewards go...

Susan RoAne: The rewards go...

The rewards go to the risk-takers, those who are willing to put their egos on the line and reach out to other people...

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Mary Todd Lincoln: [O]thers live on...

Mary Todd Lincoln: [O]thers live on...

[O]thers live on in a careless and lukewarm state -- not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: Into each life, some...

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M F K Fisher: When I write...

M F K Fisher: When I write...

When I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it . . . and...

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Tammy Faye Bakker: I always say...

Tammy Faye Bakker: I always say...

I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist.

Source: In And I Quote, by...

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Mary McLeod Bethune: The drums of...

Mary McLeod Bethune: The drums of...

The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl...

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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: The voice of...

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: The voice of...

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to...

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Svetlana Alliluyeva: God grants an...

Svetlana Alliluyeva: God grants an...

God grants an easy death only to the just.

Source: Twenty Letters to a Friend,...

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Annie Elizabeth Delany: I thought I...

Annie Elizabeth Delany: I thought I...

I thought I could change the world. It took me a hundred years to figure out I can't change the world. I can only...

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Virginia Woolf: On the outskirts...

Virginia Woolf: On the outskirts...

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

Source:...

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Ethel Percy Andrus: We learn the...

Ethel Percy Andrus: We learn the...

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to...

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Bonnie Blair: No matter what...

Bonnie Blair: No matter what...

No matter what the competition is, I try to find a goal that day and better that goal.

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