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Alice Childress: The Black writer...

Alice Childress: The Black writer...

The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it.

Source: A Candle in a Gale...

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Marsha Norman: There are things...

Marsha Norman: There are things...

There are things that music can do that language could never do, that painting could never do, or sculpture. Music is...

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Terry McMillan: It takes me...

Terry McMillan: It takes me...

It takes me forever to say my prayers these days, but I don't care, because this time around, I want to make sure God...

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Audre Lorde: There are no...

Audre Lorde: There are no...

There are no new ideas still waiting in the wings to save us as women, as human. There are only old and forgotten...

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Diane Ackerman: There is no...

Diane Ackerman: There is no...

There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our...

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox: Come, cuddle your...

Ella Wheeler Wilcox: Come, cuddle your...

Come, cuddle your head on my shoulder, dear,
Your head like the golden-rod,
And we will go sailing away from...

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Eleanor Robson Belmont: I was trained...

Eleanor Robson Belmont: I was trained...

I was trained by my husband. He said, If you want a thing done go. If not send. I belong to that group of people who...

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Harriet Ann Jacobs: There are no...

Harriet Ann Jacobs: There are no...

There are no bonds so strong as those which are formed by suffering together.

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Barbara Smith: A major problem...

Barbara Smith: A major problem...

A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our...

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Judith Crist: The critics who...

Judith Crist: The critics who...

The critics who love are the severe ones . . . we know our relationship must be based on...

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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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Jean Kerr: Marrying a man...

Jean Kerr: Marrying a man...

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when...

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Jean Kerr: Even though a...

Jean Kerr: Even though a...

Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a...

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Jean Kerr: Being divorced is...

Jean Kerr: Being divorced is...

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the...

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Jane Bryant Quinn: Even more than...

Jane Bryant Quinn: Even more than...

Even more than the Pill, what has liberated women is that they no longer need to depend on men...

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Janet Flanner: By jove, no...

Janet Flanner: By jove, no...

By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer...

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Erma Bombeck: I do not...

Erma Bombeck: I do not...

I do not participate in a sport with ambulances at the bottom of the hill.

Source:...

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Anna Quindlen: For most of...

Anna Quindlen: For most of...

For most of my life the only ceremonies I've been to at which women were the stars were weddings. So I like...

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Renata Adler: People have been...

Renata Adler: People have been...

People have been modeling their lives after films for years, but the medium is somehow unsuited to moral lessons,...

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Hannah Whitall Smith: The mother eagle...

Hannah Whitall Smith: The mother eagle...

The mother eagle teachers her little ones to fly by making their nest so uncomfortable that they are forced to leave...

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