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Barbara De Angelis: A man's brain...

Barbara De Angelis: A man's brain...

A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain...

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Barbara De Angelis: You don't develop...

Barbara De Angelis: You don't develop...

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times...

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Alice Walker: Listen, God love...

Alice Walker: Listen, God love...

Listen, God love everything you love - and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything else, God love admiration...

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Margaret Atwood: Sons branch out,...

Margaret Atwood: Sons branch out,...

Sons branch out, but one woman leads to another.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Margaret Atwood: A divorce is...

Margaret Atwood: A divorce is...

A divorce is like an amputation; you survive, but there's less of you.

Source: In...

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Anne Tyler: II would advise...

Anne Tyler: II would advise...

II would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them -- without a...

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Ouida: Indifference is the...

Ouida: Indifference is the...

Indifference is the invisible giant of the world.

Source: Wisdom, Wit and Pathos,...

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Patricia McKillip: Content, it dreams...

Patricia McKillip: Content, it dreams...

Content, it dreams awake, and spins the fabric of tales. There is really nothing to be done with such imagery except...

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Daphne DuMaurier: Writers should be...

Daphne DuMaurier: Writers should be...

Writers should be read -- but neither seen nor heard.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Francoise Sagan: Writing is a...

Francoise Sagan: Writing is a...

Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a...

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George Eliot: I like not...

George Eliot: I like not...

I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the...

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Enid Bagnold: The theatre is...

Enid Bagnold: The theatre is...

The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second...

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Hillary Rodham Clinton: The challenge is...

Hillary Rodham Clinton: The challenge is...

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible,...

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Indira Gandhi: I suppose leadership...

Indira Gandhi: I suppose leadership...

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with...

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Nancy Astor: From the American...

Nancy Astor: From the American...

From the American newspapers you'd think America was populated solely by naked women and cinema...

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Jeanne-Marie Roland: The more I...

Jeanne-Marie Roland: The more I...

The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs.

Source: Attributed.
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Sylvia Pankhurst: Love and freedom...

Sylvia Pankhurst: Love and freedom...

Love and freedom are vital to the creation and upbringing of a child.

Source:...

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Fannie Lou Hamer: What was the...

Fannie Lou Hamer: What was the...

What was the point of being scared? The only thing they could do to me was kill me and it seemed like they'd been...

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Coretta Scott King: Mama and Daddy...

Coretta Scott King: Mama and Daddy...

Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are...

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Charlotte Bunch: The state of...

Charlotte Bunch: The state of...

The state of the world today demands that women become less modest and dream/plan/act/risk on a larger...

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