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Helen Gurley Brown: Never fail to...

Helen Gurley Brown: Never fail to...

Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody.

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Helen Gurley Brown: I care. I...

Helen Gurley Brown: I care. I...

I care. I care a lot. I think of Cosmopolitan, all day, and I run scared. So it's a combination of fright, caring and...

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Jean Kerr: Women speak because...

Jean Kerr: Women speak because...

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself...

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Rona Barrett: It's ironic, but...

Rona Barrett: It's ironic, but...

It's ironic, but until you can free those final monsters within the jungle of yourself, your life, your soul is up for...

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Lady Marguerite Blessington: We never respect...

Lady Marguerite Blessington: We never respect...

We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.

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Isabel Burton: I must just...

Isabel Burton: I must just...

I must just think aloud, so as not to keep the public waiting.

Source: Foreword,...

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Brenda Ueland: I learned that...

Brenda Ueland: I learned that...

I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like a child stringing beads...

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Christina Baldwin: Forgiveness is the...

Christina Baldwin: Forgiveness is the...

Forgiveness is the act of admitting we are like other people.

Source: Life's...

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Julie Burchill: A good part...

Julie Burchill: A good part...

A good part -- and definitely the most fun part -- of being a feminist is about frightening...

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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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Peggy Noonan: A speech is...

Peggy Noonan: A speech is...

A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to...

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Naomi Wolf: The more legal...

Naomi Wolf: The more legal...

The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of...

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Minna Thomas Antrim: To control a...

Minna Thomas Antrim: To control a...

To control a man a woman must first control herself.

Source: Naked Truth & Veiled...

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Florence King: He travels fastest...

Florence King: He travels fastest...

He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is...

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Simone de Beauvoir: Patience is one...

Simone de Beauvoir: Patience is one...

Patience is one of those feminine qualities which have their origin in our oppression but should be preserved after...

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Carol Gilligan: My research suggests...

Carol Gilligan: My research suggests...

My research suggests that men and women may speak different languages that they assume are the same, using similar...

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Peace Pilgrim: The valid research...

Peace Pilgrim: The valid research...

The valid research for the future is on the inner side, on the spiritual side.

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George Eliot: But what we...

George Eliot: But what we...

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

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Jane Rule: Morality, like language,...

Jane Rule: Morality, like language,...

Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned,...

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Mary McCarthy: I suppose everyone...

Mary McCarthy: I suppose everyone...

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think,...

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