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Sarah Winnemucca: Nobody really knows...

Sarah Winnemucca: Nobody really knows...

Nobody really knows Indians who cheat them and treat them badly.

Source: In Words...

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Simone Weil: Real genius is...

Simone Weil: Real genius is...

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of...

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Mary Baker Eddy: I would no...

Mary Baker Eddy: I would no...

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his...

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Starhawk: The test of...

Starhawk: The test of...

The test of a true myth is that each time you return to it, new insights and interpretations...

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Rosa Parks: I believe that...

Rosa Parks: I believe that...

I believe that we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place...

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Andrea Dworkin: A commitment to...

Andrea Dworkin: A commitment to...

A commitment to sexual equality with males. . . is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist...

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Mary Church Terrell: While most girls...

Mary Church Terrell: While most girls...

While most girls run away from home to marry, I ran away to teach.

Source: A...

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Bonnie Blair: I'm definitely going...

Bonnie Blair: I'm definitely going...

I'm definitely going to miss hearing the sound of that gun.

Source: On her...

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Martina Navratilova: I think the...

Martina Navratilova: I think the...

I think the key is for women not to set any limits.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Anne Frank: Mrs. Van Daan's...

Anne Frank: Mrs. Van Daan's...

Mrs. Van Daan's grizzling is absolutely unbearable; now she can't any longer drive us crazy over the invasion, she...

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Brigitte Bardot: I am leaving...

Brigitte Bardot: I am leaving...

I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless...

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M F K Fisher: When I write...

M F K Fisher: When I write...

When I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it . . . and...

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Joyce Brothers: Listening, not imitation,...

Joyce Brothers: Listening, not imitation,...

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. . . . If you want to influence someone, listen to...

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Anne Sullivan: I am beginning...

Anne Sullivan: I am beginning...

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the...

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Martha Carey Thomas: . . ....

Martha Carey Thomas: . . ....

. . . a woman can be a woman and a true one without having all her time engrossed by dress and...

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Maria Montessori: If we can,...

Maria Montessori: If we can,...

If we can, when we have established individual discipline, arrange the children, sending each one to his own place, in...

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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: The voice of...

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: The voice of...

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to...

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Queen Victoria: I would venture...

Queen Victoria: I would venture...

I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little...

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St Teresa of Avila: . . ....

St Teresa of Avila: . . ....

. . . about the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don't go by one text...

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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: [My mother] speaks...

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: [My mother] speaks...

[My mother] speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same...

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