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Queen Victoria: I would venture...

Queen Victoria: I would venture...

I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little...

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Mary McLeod Bethune: From the first,...

Mary McLeod Bethune: From the first,...

From the first, I made my learning, what little it was, useful every way I could.

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Marianne Williamson: Joy is what...

Marianne Williamson: Joy is what...

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

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Mary Todd Lincoln: Clouds and darkness...

Mary Todd Lincoln: Clouds and darkness...

Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth...

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Greta Garbo: There are many...

Greta Garbo: There are many...

There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows,...

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Michelle Pfeiffer: For me, getting...

Michelle Pfeiffer: For me, getting...

For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard -- that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of...

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Brigitte Bardot: If we don't...

Brigitte Bardot: If we don't...

If we don't get an answer, we will, strengthened by the support we receive, try to overthrow the...

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Katherine Dunham: We weren't pushing...

Katherine Dunham: We weren't pushing...

We weren't pushing Black is beautiful. We just showed it.

Source: In American...

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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: I would no...

Mary Baker Eddy: I would no...

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his...

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Althea Gibson: I think I've...

Althea Gibson: I think I've...

I think I've already got the main thing I've always wanted, which is to be somebody, to have an identify. I'm Althea...

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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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Indira Gandhi: A nation' s...

Indira Gandhi: A nation' s...

A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from...

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Queen Victoria: The Queen is...

Queen Victoria: The Queen is...

The Queen is most anxious to enlist every one who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of...

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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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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: Wit lies in...

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: Wit lies in...

Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are...

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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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Hannah Arendt: We have almost...

Hannah Arendt: We have almost...

We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of...

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Sandra Day O'Connor: The more education...

Sandra Day O'Connor: The more education...

The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same...

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Margaret Thatcher: I'm extraordinarily patient...

Margaret Thatcher: I'm extraordinarily patient...

I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.

Source: In...

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