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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.

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Peggy Noonan: A speech is...

Peggy Noonan: A speech is...

A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to...

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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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Shana Alexander: What troubles me...

Shana Alexander: What troubles me...

What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be...

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Margaret Bourke-White: Usually I object...

Margaret Bourke-White: Usually I object...

Usually I object when someone makes overmuch of men's work versus women's work, for I think it is the excellence of...

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Rosa Luxemburg: Victory or defeat?...

Rosa Luxemburg: Victory or defeat?...

Victory or defeat? It is the slogan of all-powerful militarism in every belligerent nation. . . . And yet, what can...

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Lady Marguerite Blessington: The chief prerequisite...

Lady Marguerite Blessington: The chief prerequisite...

The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible...

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: One cannot collect...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: One cannot collect...

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if...

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Sara Jeannette Duncan: A human being...

Sara Jeannette Duncan: A human being...

A human being isn't an orchid, he must draw something from the soil he grows in.

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Peggy Noonan: Remember the waterfront...

Peggy Noonan: Remember the waterfront...

Remember the waterfront shack with the sign Fresh Fish Sold Here. Of course it's fresh, we're on the ocean. Of course...

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Ann Oakley: The primary function...

Ann Oakley: The primary function...

The primary function of myth is to validate an existing social order. Myth enshrines conservative social values,...

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Margaret Sanger: No woman can...

Margaret Sanger: No woman can...

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can...

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Sylvia Pankhurst: I have gone...

Sylvia Pankhurst: I have gone...

I have gone to war too . . . I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you...

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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.

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Maya Angelou: Black women have...

Maya Angelou: Black women have...

Black women have not historically stood in the pulpit, but that doesn't undermine the fact that they built the...

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Susan Sontag: A family's photograph...

Susan Sontag: A family's photograph...

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family -- and, often, is all that remains of...

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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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Helen Rowland: Before marriage, a...

Helen Rowland: Before marriage, a...

Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll...

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Grace Paley: I believe in...

Grace Paley: I believe in...

I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing...

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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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