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Suzanne LaFollette: Most people, no...

Suzanne LaFollette: Most people, no...

Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application...

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Oriana Fallaci: I always introduce...

Oriana Fallaci: I always introduce...

I always introduce myself as an encyclopedia of defects which I do not deny. Why should I? It took me a whole life...

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June Jordan: As I am...

June Jordan: As I am...

As I am a poet I express what I believe, and I fight against whatever I oppose, in poetry.

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Virgilia Peterson: Were marriage no...

Virgilia Peterson: Were marriage no...

Were marriage no more than a convenient screen for sexuality, some less cumbersome and costly protection must have...

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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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Susan Sontag: Any critic is...

Susan Sontag: Any critic is...

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of...

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Susan Sontag: American energy. ....

Susan Sontag: American energy. ....

American energy. . . is the energy of violence, of free-floating resentment and anxiety unleashed by chronic cultural...

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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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Irene Thomas: I had a...

Irene Thomas: I had a...

I had a friend with a BYRon (297) telephone number; it's the old London exchanges, killed by the Postmaster...

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Patricia Fripp: Saying yes to...

Patricia Fripp: Saying yes to...

Saying yes to yourself means acknowledging what you have that's good and working on the things that...

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Susan Faludi: [Feminism] asks that...

Susan Faludi: [Feminism] asks that...

[Feminism] asks that women be free to define themselves -- instead of having their identity defined for them, time and...

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Maria Weston Chapman: Confusion has seized...

Maria Weston Chapman: Confusion has seized...

Confusion has seized us, and all things go wrong,
The women have leaped from their spheres,
And, instead of...

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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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Coretta Scott King: There is a...

Coretta Scott King: There is a...

There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be...

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Jane Welsh Carlyle: The only thing...

Jane Welsh Carlyle: The only thing...

The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in...

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Harriet Lerner: Intimate relationships cannot...

Harriet Lerner: Intimate relationships cannot...

Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan...

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Mary Wilson Little: He who devotes...

Mary Wilson Little: He who devotes...

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become as wise at sixty as he thought himself at...

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Mary Wilson Little: There is no...

Mary Wilson Little: There is no...

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do. The fun is in having lots to do and not doing...

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Marilyn French: To nourish children...

Marilyn French: To nourish children...

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or...

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Peggy Noonan: If you join...

Peggy Noonan: If you join...

If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best and when...

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