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Marjorie Holmes: A child's hand...

Marjorie Holmes: A child's hand...

A child's hand in yours -- what tenderness it arouses, what power it conjures. You are instantly the very touchstone...

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Sara Jeannette Duncan: If you have...

Sara Jeannette Duncan: If you have...

If you have anything to tell me of importance, for God's sake begin at the end.

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Eda LeShan: Psychotherapy can be...

Eda LeShan: Psychotherapy can be...

Psychotherapy can be one of the greatest and most rewarding adventures, it can bring with it the deepest feelings of...

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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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Julia Ward Howe: Mine eyes have...

Julia Ward Howe: Mine eyes have...

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are...

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Helen Rowland: France may claim...

Helen Rowland: France may claim...

France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are made in...

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: I believe that...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: I believe that...

I believe that what women resent is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself...

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Peggy Noonan: You don't have...

Peggy Noonan: You don't have...

You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: That world is gone.

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Simone de Beauvoir: The curse which...

Simone de Beauvoir: The curse which...

The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their...

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Dorothea Brande: Where there is...

Dorothea Brande: Where there is...

Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

Source: In The...

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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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Rose Kennedy: Life isn't a...

Rose Kennedy: Life isn't a...

Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Patricia Fripp: The day that...

Patricia Fripp: The day that...

The day that you discover that you are in charge of your life is the day you turn your life...

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Peg Bracken: Why does a...

Peg Bracken: Why does a...

Why does a slight tax increase cost you $200 and a substantial tax cut save you 30 cents?

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Marie de Sevigne: . . ....

Marie de Sevigne: . . ....

. . . long journeys are strange things: if we were always to continue in the same mind we are in at the end of a...

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Etty Hillesum: Every day I...

Etty Hillesum: Every day I...

Every day I shall put my papers in order and every day I shall say farewell. And the real farewell, when it comes,...

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Barbara De Angelis: Men are just...

Barbara De Angelis: Men are just...

Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are.

Source:...

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Ellen Glasgow: No matter how...

Ellen Glasgow: No matter how...

No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless...

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Ellen Glasgow: A tragic irony...

Ellen Glasgow: A tragic irony...

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which...

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Eudora Welty: Writing fiction has...

Eudora Welty: Writing fiction has...

Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to...

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