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Helen Rowland: A good woman...

Helen Rowland: A good woman...

A good woman inspires a man; a brilliant woman interests him; a beautiful woman fascinates him; and a sympathetic...

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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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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Why do progress...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Why do progress...

Why do progress and beauty have to be so opposed?

Source: Hour of Glory, Hour of...

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Barbara Ehrenreich: In sci-fi convention,...

Barbara Ehrenreich: In sci-fi convention,...

In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory -- horse-shoe crabs of the...

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Barbara Ehrenreich: It is the...

Barbara Ehrenreich: It is the...

It is the marketplace that calls most clearly for men to be softer, more narcissistic and receptive, and the new man...

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Gail Sheehy: It is a...

Gail Sheehy: It is a...

It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it...

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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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Agnes Repplier: In the stress...

Agnes Repplier: In the stress...

In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that...

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Judith Crist: When we as...

Judith Crist: When we as...

When we as youngsters, would accuse our mother of picking on us her wise reply was, All you'll get from strangers is...

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Susan L Taylor: We don't have...

Susan L Taylor: We don't have...

We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here.

Source:...

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Martha Gellhorn: Gradually I came...

Martha Gellhorn: Gradually I came...

Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey,...

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Dorothy Canfield Fisher: Our imaginations seem...

Dorothy Canfield Fisher: Our imaginations seem...

Our imaginations seem to have been torn open . . . as by a charge of dynamite.

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Rebecca West: Everyone realizes that...

Rebecca West: Everyone realizes that...

Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized...

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Amelia Barr: Whatever the scientists...

Amelia Barr: Whatever the scientists...

Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the...

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Sojourner Truth: Religion without humanity...

Sojourner Truth: Religion without humanity...

Religion without humanity is a poor human stuff.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Renata Adler: It is always...

Renata Adler: It is always...

It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own...

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Helen Keller: Character cannot be...

Helen Keller: Character cannot be...

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be...

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Linda Ellerbee: When the anchorman...

Linda Ellerbee: When the anchorman...

When the anchorman is wearing a colonel's uniform, it tells you something.

Source:...

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Germaine Greer: Our whole lives...

Germaine Greer: Our whole lives...

Our whole lives are lived in a tangle of telling, not telling, misleading, allowing to know, concealing, eavesdropping...

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Emmeline Pankhurst: There is something...

Emmeline Pankhurst: There is something...

There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it...

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