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Sharon Stone: The philosophy of...

Sharon Stone: The philosophy of...

The philosophy of being able as a woman to decide what you want and being unashamed about making it happen was new....

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Lynda Barry: Love is an...

Lynda Barry: Love is an...

Love is an exploding cigar which we willingly smoke.

Source: Big Ideas, 1983.
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Anne Bronte: There is always...

Anne Bronte: There is always...

There is always a but in this imperfect world.

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall,...

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Anne Bradstreet: Authority without wisdom...

Anne Bradstreet: Authority without wisdom...

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge: fitter to bruise than...

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Judith Rossner: It is easier...

Judith Rossner: It is easier...

It is easier to betray than to remain loyal. It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself...

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Maxine Hong Kingston: The sweat of...

Maxine Hong Kingston: The sweat of...

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the...

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Alice Embree: America's technology has...

Alice Embree: America's technology has...

America's technology has turned inward upon itself; its corporate form makes a servant of profit, not the servant of...

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Emily Blackwell: Health has its...

Emily Blackwell: Health has its...

Health has its science as well as disease. . .

Source: Written with her sister...

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Alice Embree: The message of...

Alice Embree: The message of...

The message of the media is the commercial.

Source: Media Images 1: Madison Avenue...

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Anne Sexton: It doesn't matter...

Anne Sexton: It doesn't matter...

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

Source: The...

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Sarah Caldwell: If you approach...

Sarah Caldwell: If you approach...

If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach...

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Anne Sexton: Put your ear...

Anne Sexton: Put your ear...

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Mahalia Jackson: God can make...

Mahalia Jackson: God can make...

God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands.

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Mary Robinson: In a society...

Mary Robinson: In a society...

In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power,...

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Babe Didrikson Zaharias: Winning has always...

Babe Didrikson Zaharias: Winning has always...

Winning has always meant much to me, but winning friends has meant the most.

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Sarah Caldwell: We must continuously...

Sarah Caldwell: We must continuously...

We must continuously discipline ourselves to I remember how it felt the first moment.

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Barbara Deming: I learned always...

Barbara Deming: I learned always...

I learned always to trust my own deep sense of what I should do, and not just obediently trust the judgment of others...

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Mary Antin: A long past...

Mary Antin: A long past...

A long past vividly remembered is like a heavy garment that clings to your limbs when you would...

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Susan Sontag: A fiction about...

Susan Sontag: A fiction about...

A fiction about soft or easy deaths. . . is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or...

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Robin Morgan: Friendship is mutual...

Robin Morgan: Friendship is mutual...

Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.

Source: In Words of...

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