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Hannah Arendt: There are no...

Hannah Arendt: There are no...

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.

Source: In The New...

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Barbara De Angelis: Difficult times always...

Barbara De Angelis: Difficult times always...

Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.

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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: The more we...

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: The more we...

The more we know, the better we forgive. Whoe'er feels deeply, feels for all that live.

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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: One must choose...

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: One must choose...

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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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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Mary Ritter Beard: The volumes which...

Mary Ritter Beard: The volumes which...

The volumes which record the history of the human race are filled with the deeds and the words of great men . . ....

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Polly Adler: The only difference...

Polly Adler: The only difference...

The only difference between them and my girls is that my girls gave a man his money's...

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Elizabeth Hardwick: The greatest gift...

Elizabeth Hardwick: The greatest gift...

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge...

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Emmeline Pankhurst: Justice and judgment...

Emmeline Pankhurst: Justice and judgment...

Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations...

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Sylvia Pankhurst: A wondrous city...

Sylvia Pankhurst: A wondrous city...

A wondrous city of fairest carving, reflected in gleaming waters swirled to new patterning by every passing...

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Althea Gibson: I always wanted...

Althea Gibson: I always wanted...

I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along...

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Althea Gibson: In the field...

Althea Gibson: In the field...

In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you...

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Wilma Rudolph: When the sun...

Wilma Rudolph: When the sun...

When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to...

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Simone Weil: Who were the...

Simone Weil: Who were the...

Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead...

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Grace Speare: Only one thing...

Grace Speare: Only one thing...

Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application -- practice. What you practice is what you...

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Charleszetta Waddles: God knows no...

Charleszetta Waddles: God knows no...

God knows no distance.

Source: Mother Waddles: Black Angel of the Poor, by Lee...

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Mary Daly: Women have had...

Mary Daly: Women have had...

Women have had the power of naming stolen from us. We have not been free to use our own power to name ourselves, the...

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Helen Keller: I seldom think...

Helen Keller: I seldom think...

I seldom think about my limitations, and they've never made me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at...

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Ada Louise Huxtable: Superfluous curtains that...

Ada Louise Huxtable: Superfluous curtains that...

Superfluous curtains that needlessly cover glass would give Salome a lifetime supply of...

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Lucretia Mott: Let [woman] receive...

Lucretia Mott: Let [woman] receive...

Let [woman] receive encouragement for the proper cultivation of all her powers, so that she may enter profitably into...

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