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Emily Bronte: If I could...

Emily Bronte: If I could...

If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their...

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Helen Keller: Fact and fancy...

Helen Keller: Fact and fancy...

Fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present.

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Diane Sawyer: I think the...

Diane Sawyer: I think the...

I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

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Marie de Sevigne: . . ....

Marie de Sevigne: . . ....

. . . long journeys are strange things: if we were always to continue in the same mind we are in at the end of a...

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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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Helen Rowland: A bride at...

Helen Rowland: A bride at...

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: When one is...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: When one is...

When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.

Source: In...

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Peggy Noonan: Now he is...

Peggy Noonan: Now he is...

Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult...

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Peggy Noonan: Speeches are not...

Peggy Noonan: Speeches are not...

Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.

Source:...

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Belle Livingstone: Much has been...

Belle Livingstone: Much has been...

Much has been written about the beauty, the stillness, the terror of the desert but Iittle about its...

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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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Gail Sheehy: The secret of...

Gail Sheehy: The secret of...

The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he...

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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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Jane Welsh Carlyle: The only thing...

Jane Welsh Carlyle: The only thing...

The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in...

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Fanny Burney: Far from having...

Fanny Burney: Far from having...

Far from having taken any positive step, I have not yet even fommed any resolution.

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Gloria Evangelina Anzaldua: I am playing...

Gloria Evangelina Anzaldua: I am playing...

I am playing with myself,
I am playing with the world's soul,
I am the dialogue between myself and el espiritu...

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Gloria Evangelina Anzaldua: The act of...

Gloria Evangelina Anzaldua: The act of...

The act of writing is the act of making soul, alchemy.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Hannah More: It is not...

Hannah More: It is not...

It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn, and...

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Elizabeth Fishel: Comparison is a...

Elizabeth Fishel: Comparison is a...

Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony.

Source: Sisters: Love & Rivalry...

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Gretel Ehrlich: Honesty is stronger...

Gretel Ehrlich: Honesty is stronger...

Honesty is stronger medicine than sympathy, which may console but often hides.

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