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Joan Konner: This life isn't...

Joan Konner: This life isn't...

This life isn't bad for a first draft.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase,...

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Renata Adler: No one ever...

Renata Adler: No one ever...

No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a...

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Victoria Claffin Woodhull: All that is...

Victoria Claffin Woodhull: All that is...

All that is good and commendable now existing would continue to exist if all marriage laws were repealed tomorrow . ....

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Germaine Greer: Perhaps catastrophe is...

Germaine Greer: Perhaps catastrophe is...

Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get...

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Dora Russell: We want better...

Dora Russell: We want better...

We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.

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Susan Faludi: The demand that...

Susan Faludi: The demand that...

The demand that women return to femininity is a demand that the cultural gears shift into reverse, that we back up to...

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Babe Didrikson Zaharias: Winning has always...

Babe Didrikson Zaharias: Winning has always...

Winning has always meant much to me, but winning friends has meant the most.

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Catherine Drinker Bowen: There is a...

Catherine Drinker Bowen: There is a...

There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as...

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Suzanne LaFollette: What its children...

Suzanne LaFollette: What its children...

What its children become, that will the community become.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Gail Sheehy: The secret of...

Gail Sheehy: The secret of...

The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he...

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Maya Angelou: Here on the...

Maya Angelou: Here on the...

Here on the pulse of this new day,
You may have the grace to look up and out
And into your sister's eyes,...

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Barbara Sher: You don't have...

Barbara Sher: You don't have...

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Rebecca West: I write books...

Rebecca West: I write books...

I write books to find out about things.

Source:
-- Rebecca West, (Dec 25...

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Amelia Barr: The fate of...

Amelia Barr: The fate of...

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.

Source: The Belle...

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Ernestine L Rose: If you allow...

Ernestine L Rose: If you allow...

If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up,...

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Dolores Huerta: We criticize and...

Dolores Huerta: We criticize and...

We criticize and separate ourselves from the process. We've got to jump right in there with both...

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Hannah Whitall Smith: The mother eagle...

Hannah Whitall Smith: The mother eagle...

The mother eagle teachers her little ones to fly by making their nest so uncomfortable that they are forced to leave...

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Rebecca Harding Davis: Young people have...

Rebecca Harding Davis: Young people have...

Young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which . . . develops patriotism and courage....

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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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Sarah Ban Breathnach: As we become...

Sarah Ban Breathnach: As we become...

As we become curators of our own contentment on the Simple Abundance path. . . we learn to savor the small with a...

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