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Emma Goldman: Someone has said...

Emma Goldman: Someone has said...

Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.

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Margaret Sanger: No woman can...

Margaret Sanger: No woman can...

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can...

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Carolyn Heilbrun: That's the point...

Carolyn Heilbrun: That's the point...

That's the point of quotations, you know: one can use another's words to be insulting.

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Liz Carpenter: I learned in...

Liz Carpenter: I learned in...

I learned in my four decades in Washington that one person can make a difference.

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Oriana Fallaci: I always introduce...

Oriana Fallaci: I always introduce...

I always introduce myself as an encyclopedia of defects which I do not deny. Why should I? It took me a whole life...

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Gail Sheehy: With each passage...

Gail Sheehy: With each passage...

With each passage of human growth we must shed a protective structure [like a hardy crustacean]. We are left exposed...

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Gail Sheehy: All changes, even...

Gail Sheehy: All changes, even...

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must...

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Jane Welsh Carlyle: Blessed be the...

Jane Welsh Carlyle: Blessed be the...

Blessed be the inventor of photography! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything...

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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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Minna Thomas Antrim: A fool bolts...

Minna Thomas Antrim: A fool bolts...

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

Source: Naked Truth and...

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Helena Petrova Blavatsky: Help Nature and...

Helena Petrova Blavatsky: Help Nature and...

Help Nature and work on with her; and Nature will regard thee as one of her creators . . . she will lay bare before...

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Martha Beck: The power to...

Martha Beck: The power to...

The power to bring me out of solitude or to push me back into it had never belonged to another person. It was mine and...

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Marie de Sevigne: When I step...

Marie de Sevigne: When I step...

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton: To throw obstacles...

Elizabeth Cady Stanton: To throw obstacles...

To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.

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Marian Wright Edelman: Education is a...

Marian Wright Edelman: Education is a...

Education is a precondition to survival in America today.

Source: c. 1988.
--...

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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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Sylvia Pankhurst: Love and freedom...

Sylvia Pankhurst: Love and freedom...

Love and freedom are vital to the creation and upbringing of a child.

Source:...

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Lucy Stone: Because I know...

Lucy Stone: Because I know...

Because I know that I shall suffer, shall I, for this, like Lot's wife, turn back? No, mother, if in this hour of the...

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Dora Russell: We do not...

Dora Russell: We do not...

We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed all our trust...

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