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Kate Millett: Because of our...

Kate Millett: Because of our...

Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly...

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Helen Keller: Keep your face...

Helen Keller: Keep your face...

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.

Source:
-- Helen...

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Dorothy Parker: His voice was...

Dorothy Parker: His voice was...

His voice was intimate as the rustle of sheets.

Source: Dusk before...

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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.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Liz Smith: Begin somewhere; you...

Liz Smith: Begin somewhere; you...

Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Source: In...

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Marilyn vos Savant: If your head...

Marilyn vos Savant: If your head...

If your head tells you one thing and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide...

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Helen Rowland: A bachelor never...

Helen Rowland: A bachelor never...

A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.

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Barbara Ehrenreich: The truth is,...

Barbara Ehrenreich: The truth is,...

The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other...

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Florence King: In its purest...

Florence King: In its purest...

In its purest sense, nicknaming is an elitist ritual practiced by those who cherish hierarchy. For preppies it's a...

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Simone de Beauvoir: Patience is one...

Simone de Beauvoir: Patience is one...

Patience is one of those feminine qualities which have their origin in our oppression but should be preserved after...

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Dorothea Brande: Old habits are...

Dorothea Brande: Old habits are...

Old habits are strong and jealous.

Source: Becoming A Writer, 1934.
-- Dorothea...

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Molly Haskell: Being alone and...

Molly Haskell: Being alone and...

Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than...

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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 fiction about...

Susan Sontag: A fiction about...

A fiction about soft or easy deaths. . . is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or...

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Rebecca West: Life ought to...

Rebecca West: Life ought to...

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the...

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Freya Stark: The great and...

Freya Stark: The great and...

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and...

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Fran Lebowitz: Never judge a...

Fran Lebowitz: Never judge a...

Never judge a cover by its book.

Source: In Metropolitan Life.
-- Fran Lebowitz,...

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Abigail Van Buren: While forbidden fruit...

Abigail Van Buren: While forbidden fruit...

While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.

Source:...

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Jane Bryant Quinn: Lawyers [are] operators...

Jane Bryant Quinn: Lawyers [are] operators...

Lawyers [are] operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to...

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Jamaica Kincaid: I didn't think...

Jamaica Kincaid: I didn't think...

I didn't think of myself as an outsider because of my race because... where I grew up I was the same race as almost...

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