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Jane Welsh Carlyle: When one has...

Jane Welsh Carlyle: When one has...

When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.

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Alice Koller: Being solitary is...

Alice Koller: Being solitary is...

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the...

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Minna Thomas Antrim: The morals of...

Minna Thomas Antrim: The morals of...

The morals of today are the immorals of yesterday, the creeds of tomorrow.

Source:...

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Marge Piercy: Love as if...

Marge Piercy: Love as if...

Love as if you liked yourself, and it may happen.

Source:
-- Marge Piercy, (Mar...

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Helen Rowland: A Bachelor of...

Helen Rowland: A Bachelor of...

A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a...

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Simone de Beauvoir: This has always...

Simone de Beauvoir: This has always...

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons hitherto brought forward in explanation of this fact has...

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Maya Angelou: A bird doesn't...

Maya Angelou: A bird doesn't...

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

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Judith Martin: The simple idea...

Judith Martin: The simple idea...

The simple idea that everyone needs a reasonable amount of challenging work in his or her life, and also a personal...

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Dorothy Height: A Negro woman...

Dorothy Height: A Negro woman...

A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can,t take the same things for...

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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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Anne Frank: I don't think...

Anne Frank: I don't think...

I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

Source: The...

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Jean Kerr: Even though a...

Jean Kerr: Even though a...

Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a...

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Phyllis Battelle: Fame is an...

Phyllis Battelle: Fame is an...

Fame is an ego-building but back-breaking state of being which -- rather like love -- is most comfortable in private,...

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Joan Konner: Procrastination gives you...

Joan Konner: Procrastination gives you...

Procrastination gives you something to look forward to.

Source: In Webster's...

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Joan Konner: Journalism has always...

Joan Konner: Journalism has always...

Journalism has always existed in two different realities . . . the economic marketplace and [the] special institution...

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Helen Keller: College isn't the...

Helen Keller: College isn't the...

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

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-- Helen Keller, (Jun 27...

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Diane Sawyer: I'm always fascinated...

Diane Sawyer: I'm always fascinated...

I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.

Source: TV Guide.
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Peg Bracken: When there's a...

Peg Bracken: When there's a...

When there's a lot of it around, you never want it very much.

Source: The I Hate to...

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Etty Hillesum: Greed probably figures...

Etty Hillesum: Greed probably figures...

Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with...

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Ayn Rand: He liked to...

Ayn Rand: He liked to...

He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's personality,...

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