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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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Peace Pilgrim: The valid research...

Peace Pilgrim: The valid research...

The valid research for the future is on the inner side, on the spiritual side.

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Maggie Kuhn: Learning and sex...

Maggie Kuhn: Learning and sex...

Learning and sex until rigor mortis.

Source: Her motto; in The Concise Columbia...

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Mary Harris Mother Jones: Pray for the...

Mary Harris Mother Jones: Pray for the...

Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.

Source: In Mother Jones: The...

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Marie de Sevigne: There is no...

Marie de Sevigne: There is no...

There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view...

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Marie de Sevigne: The desire to...

Marie de Sevigne: The desire to...

The desire to be singular and to astonish by ways out of the common seems to me to be the source of many...

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Harriet Ann Jacobs: There are no...

Harriet Ann Jacobs: There are no...

There are no bonds so strong as those which are formed by suffering together.

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Erma Bombeck: Anybody who watches...

Erma Bombeck: Anybody who watches...

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.

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Dorothy Dix: I have learned...

Dorothy Dix: I have learned...

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of...

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Maya Angelou: The quality of...

Maya Angelou: The quality of...

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when...

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Susan Sontag: Any important disease...

Susan Sontag: Any important disease...

Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in...

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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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Rebecca West: Most works of...

Rebecca West: Most works of...

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their...

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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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Barbara Walters: A great many...

Barbara Walters: A great many...

A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.

Source:...

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Dorothy Uhnak: It was all...

Dorothy Uhnak: It was all...

It was all in the orchestration, he claimed: in knowing how and where to pitch each and every particular argument; who...

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