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Eileen Caddy: Gratitude helps you...

Eileen Caddy: Gratitude helps you...

Gratitude helps you to grow and expands; gratitude brings you and laughter into your life and into the lives of all...

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Eileen Caddy: Life is full...

Eileen Caddy: Life is full...

Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to...

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Dorothy Canfield Fisher: Like other potentates...

Dorothy Canfield Fisher: Like other potentates...

Like other potentates with a long habit of arbitrary authority, she covered her perplexity with a smart show of...

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Judith Martin: Chaperons, even in...

Judith Martin: Chaperons, even in...

Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force...

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Margaret Sanger: When a motherhood...

Margaret Sanger: When a motherhood...

When a motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will...

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Diana Vreeland: Elegance is innate....

Diana Vreeland: Elegance is innate....

Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.

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Jessica Mitford: In childbirth, as...

Jessica Mitford: In childbirth, as...

In childbirth, as in other human endeavors, fashions start with the rich, are then adopted by the aspirant middle...

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Marian Wright Edelman: Education is a...

Marian Wright Edelman: Education is a...

Education is a precondition to survival in America today.

Source: c. 1988.
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Emmeline Pankhurst: There is something...

Emmeline Pankhurst: There is something...

There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it...

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Dora Russell: We have heeded...

Dora Russell: We have heeded...

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only love...

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Babe Didrikson Zaharias: A couple of...

Babe Didrikson Zaharias: A couple of...

A couple of hours of practice is worth ten sloppy rounds.

Source: In The Golfer's...

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: The sea does...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: The sea does...

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open,...

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Doris Lilly: He demolished people...

Doris Lilly: He demolished people...

He demolished people . . . . You either loved him or you hated him, but there was no one remotely like him, except,...

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Shana Alexander: Though a plane...

Shana Alexander: Though a plane...

Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have...

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Brenda Ueland: The only good...

Brenda Ueland: The only good...

The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or...

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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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Monica Baldwin: A wisp of...

Monica Baldwin: A wisp of...

A wisp of gossamer, about the size and substance of a spider's web.

Source: On...

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Naomi Wolf: Pain is real...

Naomi Wolf: Pain is real...

Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or...

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Gertrude Stein: Considering how dangerous...

Gertrude Stein: Considering how dangerous...

Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really frightening.

Source: In...

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Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco: Blessed are those...

Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco: Blessed are those...

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.

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