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Audre Lorde: I am deliberate...

Audre Lorde: I am deliberate...

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox: Feast, and your...

Ella Wheeler Wilcox: Feast, and your...

Feast, and your halls are crowded;
Fast, and the world goes by.


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Sophia Loren: The two big...

Sophia Loren: The two big...

The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in...

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Carrie Fisher: I think of...

Carrie Fisher: I think of...

I think of my body as a side effect of my mind. Like a thought I had once that manifested itself-- Oops! Oh no!...

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Gilda Radner: I can always...

Gilda Radner: I can always...

I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity.

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Carol Burnett: People invite me...

Carol Burnett: People invite me...

People invite me to dinner not because I cook, but because I like to clean up. I get immediate gratification from...

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Goldie Hawn: I've finally stopped...

Goldie Hawn: I've finally stopped...

I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be.

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: I do not...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: I do not...

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone...

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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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Julie Burchill: The freedom that...

Julie Burchill: The freedom that...

The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and...

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Grace Paley: I believe in...

Grace Paley: I believe in...

I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing...

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Dorothy Height: A Negro woman...

Dorothy Height: A Negro woman...

A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can,t take the same things for...

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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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Natasha Josefowitz: What is luck?...

Natasha Josefowitz: What is luck?...

What is luck? It is not only chance, it is also creating the opportunity, recognizing it when it is there, and taking...

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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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Christina Baldwin: How we remember,...

Christina Baldwin: How we remember,...

How we remember, what we remember, and why we remember form the most personal map of our...

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Monica Baldwin: A wisp of...

Monica Baldwin: A wisp of...

A wisp of gossamer, about the size and substance of a spider's web.

Source: On...

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Sara Jeannette Duncan: Why is it...

Sara Jeannette Duncan: Why is it...

Why is it that when people have no capacity for private usefulness they should be so anxious to serve the...

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Minna Thomas Antrim: Doing all we...

Minna Thomas Antrim: Doing all we...

Doing all we can to promote our friend's happiness is better than to continually drink to his...

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Doris Lessing: That is what...

Doris Lessing: That is what...

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new...

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