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Delphine de Girardin: The best religion...

Delphine de Girardin: The best religion...

The best religion is the most tolerant.

Source: In 21st Century Dictionary of...

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Gloria Evangelina Anzaldua: The world I...

Gloria Evangelina Anzaldua: The world I...

The world I create in the writing compensates for what the real world does not give me.

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Isabel Burton: I have no...

Isabel Burton: I have no...

I have no leisure to think of style or of polish, or to select the best language, the best English # no time to shine...

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Simone de Beauvoir: In the face...

Simone de Beauvoir: In the face...

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.

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Hannah More: Goals help you...

Hannah More: Goals help you...

Goals help you overcome short-term problems.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Suzanne Curchod Necker: Too many wish...

Suzanne Curchod Necker: Too many wish...

Too many wish to be happy before becoming wise.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Gretel Ehrlich: There is nothing...

Gretel Ehrlich: There is nothing...

There is nothing in nature that can't be taken as a sign of both morality and...

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Elizabeth Janeway: As long as...

Elizabeth Janeway: As long as...

As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in...

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Marge Piercy: All women hustle....

Marge Piercy: All women hustle....

All women hustle. Women watch faces, voices, gestures, moods . . . She's the person who has to survive through...

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Marsha Sinetar: Life's up and...

Marsha Sinetar: Life's up and...

Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as...

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Kathryn Hulme: Never forget that...

Kathryn Hulme: Never forget that...

Never forget that [God] tests his real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones.

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Eileen Caddy: When you feel...

Eileen Caddy: When you feel...

When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of...

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Susan Sontag: Camp is a...

Susan Sontag: Camp is a...

Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style but a particular style. It is the love of the...

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Dorothy Canfield Fisher: Our imaginations seem...

Dorothy Canfield Fisher: Our imaginations seem...

Our imaginations seem to have been torn open . . . as by a charge of dynamite.

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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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Martha Beck: The power to...

Martha Beck: The power to...

The power to bring me out of solitude or to push me back into it had never belonged to another person. It was mine and...

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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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Gloria Steinem: If the shoe...

Gloria Steinem: If the shoe...

If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?

Source: Outrageous Acts and...

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Barbara Ehrenreich: In sci-fi convention,...

Barbara Ehrenreich: In sci-fi convention,...

In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory -- horse-shoe crabs of the...

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