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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: I don't want...

Althea Gibson: I don't want...

I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I just want to be reasonably successful and live a normal life with all the...

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Kathy Ireland: Modeling was another...

Kathy Ireland: Modeling was another...

Modeling was another job like some of the other ones I had. Working as a cashier, I delivered newspapers, I worked in...

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Mae West: Too much of...

Mae West: Too much of...

Too much of a good thing is wonderful.

Source: Mae West: Emotion in Motion, by...

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Patricia Neal: Don't forget to...

Patricia Neal: Don't forget to...

Don't forget to duck!

Source: To John Wayne in Operation Pacific, 1951.
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Hermione Gingold: I got all...

Hermione Gingold: I got all...

I got all the schooling any actress needs. That is, I learned to write enough to sign...

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Barbara Bush: Bias has to...

Barbara Bush: Bias has to...

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are...

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Millicent Fenwick: Never feel self-pity,...

Millicent Fenwick: Never feel self-pity,...

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage...

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Rosalynn Carter: You must accept...

Rosalynn Carter: You must accept...

You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that...

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Kathleen Turner: There's something so...

Kathleen Turner: There's something so...

There's something so muffled about the way you experience things. It's as if you were trying to slip through life...

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Amy Vanderbilt: Good manners have...

Amy Vanderbilt: Good manners have...

Good manners have much to do with emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit...

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Hillary Rodham Clinton: You show people...

Hillary Rodham Clinton: You show people...

You show people what you're willing to fight for when you fight your friends.

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Margaret Thatcher: I'm extraordinarily patient...

Margaret Thatcher: I'm extraordinarily patient...

I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.

Source: In...

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Queen Mother Elizabeth: I'm glad we've...

Queen Mother Elizabeth: I'm glad we've...

I'm glad we've been bombed. It makes me feel I can look the East End in the face.

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Margaret Mead: We need every...

Margaret Mead: We need every...

We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class...

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Hannah Arendt: As witnesses not...

Hannah Arendt: As witnesses not...

As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite's crime is that he...

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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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Annie Elizabeth Delany: Turning one hundred...

Annie Elizabeth Delany: Turning one hundred...

Turning one hundred was the worst birthday of my life. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. Turning 101 was not so...

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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: I think he...

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: I think he...

I think he will probably come round in time, I mean to renew the subject pretty often.

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Mary Ritter Beard: The dogma of...

Mary Ritter Beard: The dogma of...

The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever...

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