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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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Ellen Key: Corporal punishment is...

Ellen Key: Corporal punishment is...

Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides....

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Mary Austin: Ride your emotions...

Mary Austin: Ride your emotions...

Ride your emotions as the shallop rides the waves; don't get upset among them. There are people who enjoy getting...

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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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Dorothy Thompson: Fear grows in...

Dorothy Thompson: Fear grows in...

Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.

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Miriam Beard: Leisure for reverie,...

Miriam Beard: Leisure for reverie,...

Leisure for reverie, gay or somber, does much to enrich life.

Source: Realism in...

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Grace Paley: I often see...

Grace Paley: I often see...

I often see through things right to the apparition itself.

Source: Enormous Changes...

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Eda LeShan: . ....

Eda LeShan: . ....

. . . in all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly...

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Fanny Burney: . . ....

Fanny Burney: . . ....

. . . Imagination took the reins, and Reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to a race with so eccentric...

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Suzanne Curchod Necker: The most subtle...

Suzanne Curchod Necker: The most subtle...

The most subtle flattery a woman can receive is that conveyed by actions, not by words.

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Helen Rowland: Marriage is like...

Helen Rowland: Marriage is like...

Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try...

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Julie Burchill: Now the whole...

Julie Burchill: Now the whole...

Now the whole dizzying and delirious range of sexual possibilities has been boiled down to that one big, boring,...

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Sara Jeannette Duncan: Clothes and courage...

Sara Jeannette Duncan: Clothes and courage...

Clothes and courage have much to do with each other.

Source: In Barnes & Noble Book...

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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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Rose Kennedy: I've had an...

Rose Kennedy: I've had an...

I've had an exciting life; I married for love and got a little money along with it.

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Sheilah Graham: That youthful sparkle...

Sheilah Graham: That youthful sparkle...

That youthful sparkle in his eyes is caused by his contact lenses, which he keeps highly...

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Marie de Sevigne: There is no...

Marie de Sevigne: There is no...

There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view...

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Marie de Sevigne: The desire to...

Marie de Sevigne: The desire to...

The desire to be singular and to astonish by ways out of the common seems to me to be the source of many...

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Alice James: Truly nothing is...

Alice James: Truly nothing is...

Truly nothing is to be expected but the unexpected.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Barbara Smith: Black women, whose...

Barbara Smith: Black women, whose...

Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom...

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