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Vera Brittain: For the courage...

Vera Brittain: For the courage...

For the courage of greatness is adventurous and knows not withdrawing,
But grasps the nettle, danger, with resolute...

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Vera Brittain: The pacifists, task...

Vera Brittain: The pacifists, task...

The pacifists, task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive...

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Irene Thomas: Protestant women may...

Irene Thomas: Protestant women may...

Protestant women may take the Pill. Roman Catholic women must keep taking the Tablet.

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Peggy Noonan: Candor is a...

Peggy Noonan: Candor is a...

Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.

Source: In...

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Peggy Noonan: TV gives everyone...

Peggy Noonan: TV gives everyone...

TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains.

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Simone de Beauvoir: On the day...

Simone de Beauvoir: On the day...

On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in strength, not to escape herself but...

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Ingrid Bengis: The real questions...

Ingrid Bengis: The real questions...

The real questions refuse to be placated. They are the questions asked most frequently and answered most inadequately,...

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Virgilia Peterson: Were marriage no...

Virgilia Peterson: Were marriage no...

Were marriage no more than a convenient screen for sexuality, some less cumbersome and costly protection must have...

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Elsa Maxwell: Existence is a...

Elsa Maxwell: Existence is a...

Existence is a party. You join after its started and you leave before its finished.

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Belva Lockwood: No one can...

Belva Lockwood: No one can...

No one can claim to be called Christian who gives money for the building of warships and...

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Emmeline Pankhurst: There is something...

Emmeline Pankhurst: There is something...

There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it...

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Sylvia Pankhurst: I have gone...

Sylvia Pankhurst: I have gone...

I have gone to war too . . . I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you...

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Ellen Key: The educator must...

Ellen Key: The educator must...

The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the...

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Judith Crist: When we as...

Judith Crist: When we as...

When we as youngsters, would accuse our mother of picking on us her wise reply was, All you'll get from strangers is...

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Fran Lebowitz: The opposite of...

Fran Lebowitz: The opposite of...

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

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Abigail Van Buren: The less you...

Abigail Van Buren: The less you...

The less you talk, the more you're listened to.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Jamaica Kincaid: In isolation I...

Jamaica Kincaid: In isolation I...

In isolation I ruthlessly plow the deep silences, seeking my opportunities like a miner seeking veins of treasures. In...

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Joan Konner: Think of ideas...

Joan Konner: Think of ideas...

Think of ideas as a beat. To change a mind is to change the world.

Source: In Words...

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Rosa Luxemburg: Victory or defeat?...

Rosa Luxemburg: Victory or defeat?...

Victory or defeat? It is the slogan of all-powerful militarism in every belligerent nation. . . . And yet, what can...

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Lady Marguerite Blessington: Happiness consists not...

Lady Marguerite Blessington: Happiness consists not...

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.

Source: In...

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