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Judith Crist: Happiness is too...

Judith Crist: Happiness is too...

Happiness is too many things these days for anyone lo wish il on anyone lightly. So let's just wish each other a...

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Phyllis Battelle: A broken heart...

Phyllis Battelle: A broken heart...

A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later, when you see the guy in an elevator and he is fat and...

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Clementine Paddleford: A tiny radish...

Clementine Paddleford: A tiny radish...

A tiny radish of passionate scarlet, tipped modestly in white.

Source: Recalled on...

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Jeannette Rankin: What one decides...

Jeannette Rankin: What one decides...

What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an...

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Mary Austin: That curious social...

Mary Austin: That curious social...

That curious social warp which obligates us most to impeach the validity of a woman's opinion at the points where it...

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Anita Brookner: The lessons taught...

Anita Brookner: The lessons taught...

The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so...

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Margaret Bourke-White: The beauty of...

Margaret Bourke-White: The beauty of...

The beauty of the past belongs to the past.

Source: On modern photojournalism; in...

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Harriet Lerner: Underground issues from...

Harriet Lerner: Underground issues from...

Underground issues from one relationship or context invariably fuel our fires in another.

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Simone de Beauvoir: The writer of...

Simone de Beauvoir: The writer of...

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and...

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Minna Thomas Antrim: Man forgives woman...

Minna Thomas Antrim: Man forgives woman...

Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.

Source: Naked Truth 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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Alice Koller: I've arrived at...

Alice Koller: I've arrived at...

I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacceptable. Therefore,...

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Marge Piercy: The real writer...

Marge Piercy: The real writer...

The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its...

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Helen Rowland: A man's desire...

Helen Rowland: A man's desire...

A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern...

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Eda LeShan: A new baby...

Eda LeShan: A new baby...

A new baby is like the beginning of all things wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down...

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Simone de Beauvoir: This has always...

Simone de Beauvoir: This has always...

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons hitherto brought forward in explanation of this fact has...

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Belle Livingstone: Odd how the...

Belle Livingstone: Odd how the...

Odd how the erotic appeal has swung away from legs; today a smart girl takes her legs for granted and gets herself a...

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Carolyn Heilbrun: Today's shocks are...

Carolyn Heilbrun: Today's shocks are...

Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for...

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Carolyn Heilbrun: Ironically, women who...

Carolyn Heilbrun: Ironically, women who...

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had...

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Gail Sheehy: Would that there...

Gail Sheehy: Would that there...

Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful...

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