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Meryl Streep: Integrate what you...

Meryl Streep: Integrate what you...

Integrate what you believe into every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of...

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Julia Ward Howe: Mine eyes have...

Julia Ward Howe: Mine eyes have...

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are...

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Woman's discontent increases...

Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Woman's discontent increases...

Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.

Source: In...

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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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Renata Adler: It is always...

Renata Adler: It is always...

It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own...

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Jane Welsh Carlyle: When one has...

Jane Welsh Carlyle: When one has...

When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.

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Alice Koller: I've arrived at...

Alice Koller: I've arrived at...

I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacceptable. Therefore,...

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Sara Jeannette Duncan: A human being...

Sara Jeannette Duncan: A human being...

A human being isn't an orchid, he must draw something from the soil he grows in.

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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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Robin Morgan: If I had...

Robin Morgan: If I had...

If I had to characterize one quality as the genius of feminist thought, culture, and action, it would be the...

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Jane Bryant Quinn: The best real-estate...

Jane Bryant Quinn: The best real-estate...

The best real-estate investments with the highest yields are in working-class neighborhoods, because fancy properties...

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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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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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Rose Kennedy: I tell myself...

Rose Kennedy: I tell myself...

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts -- spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and...

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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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Patricia Fripp: The day that...

Patricia Fripp: The day that...

The day that you discover that you are in charge of your life is the day you turn your life...

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Liz Smith: Begin somewhere; you...

Liz Smith: Begin somewhere; you...

Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Source: In...

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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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Anita Brookner: What is interesting...

Anita Brookner: What is interesting...

What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere -- it is an art form in...

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Laura Ingalls Wilder: I am beginning...

Laura Ingalls Wilder: I am beginning...

I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after...

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