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Midge Decter: We proclaimed you...

Midge Decter: We proclaimed you...

We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is...

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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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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: My father died<br>many...

Natasha Josefowitz: My father died
many...

My father died
many years ago,
and yet when something special
happens to me,
I talk to him secretly
not...

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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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Hannah More: Obstacles are those...

Hannah More: Obstacles are those...

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

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Elizabeth Fishel: Comparison is a...

Elizabeth Fishel: Comparison is a...

Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony.

Source: Sisters: Love & Rivalry...

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Grace Paley: There isn't a...

Grace Paley: There isn't a...

There isn't a story written that isn't about blood and money. People and their relationship to each other is the...

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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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Judith Martin: The dinner table...

Judith Martin: The dinner table...

The dinner table is the center for the teaching and practicing not just of table manners but of conversation,...

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Helen Keller: Character cannot be...

Helen Keller: Character cannot be...

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be...

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Peg Bracken: Why does a...

Peg Bracken: Why does a...

Why does a slight tax increase cost you $200 and a substantial tax cut save you 30 cents?

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Perhaps middle-age is,...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Perhaps middle-age is,...

Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material...

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Barbara Ehrenreich: Considering the absence...

Barbara Ehrenreich: Considering the absence...

Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so...

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Barbara Ehrenreich: It is the...

Barbara Ehrenreich: It is the...

It is the marketplace that calls most clearly for men to be softer, more narcissistic and receptive, and the new man...

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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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Sheila Ballantyne: Californians are good...

Sheila Ballantyne: Californians are good...

Californians are good at planning for the earthquake, while simultaneously denying it will...

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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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Martha Gellhorn: It would be...

Martha Gellhorn: It would be...

It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the...

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Clara McBride Hale: When I'm gone,...

Clara McBride Hale: When I'm gone,...

When I'm gone, somebody else will take it up and do it. This is how we've lived all these...

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