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Martina Navratilova: Being blunt with...

Martina Navratilova: Being blunt with...

Being blunt with your feelings is very American. In this big country, I can be as brash as New York, as hedonistic as...

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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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Marie Curie: [H]umanity also needs...

Marie Curie: [H]umanity also needs...

[H]umanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it...

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Sarah Winnemucca: I would place...

Sarah Winnemucca: I would place...

I would place al1 the Indians of Nevada on ships in our harbor, take them to New York and land them there as...

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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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Charlotte Bronte: If you are...

Charlotte Bronte: If you are...

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did...

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Barbara Bush: Bias has to...

Barbara Bush: Bias has to...

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are...

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Jill Ruckelshaus: It occurred to...

Jill Ruckelshaus: It occurred to...

It occurred to me when I was thirteen and wearing white gloves and Mary Janes and going to dancing school, that no one...

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Geraldine Ferraro: I should have...

Geraldine Ferraro: I should have...

I should have had a circuitous answer that was a non-answer.

Source: On initial...

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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: I think he...

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: I think he...

I think he will probably come round in time, I mean to renew the subject pretty often.

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Karen Horney: Is not the...

Karen Horney: Is not the...

Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their feeling of...

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Barbara De Angelis: Men aren't the...

Barbara De Angelis: Men aren't the...

Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands...

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Flannery O'Connor: Conviction without experience...

Flannery O'Connor: Conviction without experience...

Conviction without experience makes for harshness.

Source: The Habit of Being,...

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Hannah Arendt: We have almost...

Hannah Arendt: We have almost...

We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of...

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Elizabeth Bowen: Experience isn't interesting...

Elizabeth Bowen: Experience isn't interesting...

Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself - in fact, till it does that, it hardly is...

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Eleanor Roosevelt: What one has...

Eleanor Roosevelt: What one has...

What one has to do usually can be done.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Eva Peron: Almsgiving leaves a...

Eva Peron: Almsgiving leaves a...

Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect...

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Ella T Grasso: It is not...

Ella T Grasso: It is not...

It is not enough to profess faith in the democratic process; we must do something about...

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St Teresa of Avila: Remember that you...

St Teresa of Avila: Remember that you...

Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you...

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Beatrice Hinkle: The attitude and...

Beatrice Hinkle: The attitude and...

The attitude and reactions of artists toward their art children reveal an attitude similar to that which mothers in...

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