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Eileen Caddy: Gratitude helps you...

Eileen Caddy: Gratitude helps you...

Gratitude helps you to grow and expands; gratitude brings you and laughter into your life and into the lives of all...

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Susan Sontag: The best emotions...

Susan Sontag: The best emotions...

The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. . . . The least energizing emotion to write out of is...

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Amelia Barr: Let me tell...

Amelia Barr: Let me tell...

Let me tell thee, time is a very precious gift of God; so precious that He only gives it to us moment by moment. He...

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Judith Martin: What you have...

Judith Martin: What you have...

What you have when everyone wears the same playclothes for all occasions, is addressed by nickname, expected to...

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Ethel Percy Andrus: It is only...

Ethel Percy Andrus: It is only...

It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.

Source: In The...

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Clara McBride Hale: When I'm gone,...

Clara McBride Hale: When I'm gone,...

When I'm gone, somebody else will take it up and do it. This is how we've lived all these...

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Belva Lockwood: I know we...

Belva Lockwood: I know we...

I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation. If women...

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Jeannette Rankin: You can no...

Jeannette Rankin: You can no...

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

Source: In Jeanette...

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Susan Faludi: The feminine woman...

Susan Faludi: The feminine woman...

The feminine woman is forever static and childlike. She is like the ballerina in an old-fashioned music box, her...

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Helen Keller: College isn't the...

Helen Keller: College isn't the...

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Source:
-- Helen Keller, (Jun 27...

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Helen Keller: Fact and fancy...

Helen Keller: Fact and fancy...

Fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present.

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Dorothy Parker: She was always...

Dorothy Parker: She was always...

She was always pleased to have him come and
never sorry to see him go.


Source:...

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Dorothy Parker: Then if my...

Dorothy Parker: Then if my...

Then if my friendships break and bend,
There's little need to cry
The while I know that every foe
Is faithful...

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Rose Kennedy: I looked on...

Rose Kennedy: I looked on...

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and...

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Rose Kennedy: Birds sing after...

Rose Kennedy: Birds sing after...

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to...

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Linda Ellerbee: Styles, like everything...

Linda Ellerbee: Styles, like everything...

Styles, like everything else, change. Style doesn't.

Source: Move On.
-- Linda...

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Pauline Kael: A mistake in...

Pauline Kael: A mistake in...

A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.

Source:...

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Peace Pilgrim: To attain inner...

Peace Pilgrim: To attain inner...

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life --...

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Harriet Tubman: We saw the...

Harriet Tubman: We saw the...

We saw the lightning and that was the guns and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard...

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Sojourner Truth: I am glad...

Sojourner Truth: I am glad...

I am glad to see that men are getting their rights, but I want women to get theirs, and while the water is stirring I...

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