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Susan Sontag: Any critic is...

Susan Sontag: Any critic is...

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of...

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Susan Sontag: Anthropology has always...

Susan Sontag: Anthropology has always...

Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject. . . . [The...

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Ellen Key: When one paints...

Ellen Key: When one paints...

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

Source: The...

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Florida Scott-Maxwell: In very truth...

Florida Scott-Maxwell: In very truth...

In very truth the days are almost free, and if it is another way of saying that our lives are empty, well -- there are...

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Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: Independence I have...

Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: Independence I have...

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will...

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Jeannette Rankin: What one decides...

Jeannette Rankin: What one decides...

What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an...

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Florence Griffith Joyner: I like being...

Florence Griffith Joyner: I like being...

I like being unconventional.

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-- Florence Griffith Joyner, (Dec 21...

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Helen Rowland: A good woman...

Helen Rowland: A good woman...

A good woman is known by what she does; a good man by what he doesn't.

Source: In...

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: The sea does...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: The sea does...

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open,...

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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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Carolyn Heilbrun: I don't know...

Carolyn Heilbrun: I don't know...

I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's...

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Oriana Fallaci: With our progress...

Oriana Fallaci: With our progress...

With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium: that rare weakness we call...

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Gail Sheehy: The delights of...

Gail Sheehy: The delights of...

The delights of self-discovery are always available.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Virgilia Peterson: I can understand...

Virgilia Peterson: I can understand...

I can understand that memory must be selective, else it would choke on the glut of experience. What I cannot...

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Midge Decter: It might sound...

Midge Decter: It might sound...

It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of...

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Gloria Evangelina Anzaldua: Voyager, there are...

Gloria Evangelina Anzaldua: Voyager, there are...

Voyager, there are no bridges, one builds them as one walks.

Source: In Words of...

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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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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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Grace Paley: There isn't a...

Grace Paley: There isn't a...

There isn't a story written that isn't about blood and money. People and their relationship to each other is the...

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Gail Hamilton: The total depravity...

Gail Hamilton: The total depravity...

The total depravity of inanimate things.

Source: Epigram
-- Gail Hamilton, ( ...

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