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Mary Ashton Livermore: The age looks...

Mary Ashton Livermore: The age looks...

The age looks steadily to the redressing of wrong, to the righting of every form of error and injustice; and a...

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: When one is...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: When one is...

When one is out of touch with oneself, one cannot touch others.

Source: Gift From...

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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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Letty Cottin Pogrebin: We need old...

Letty Cottin Pogrebin: We need old...

We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.

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Oriana Fallaci: Glory is a...

Oriana Fallaci: Glory is a...

Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is...

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Elsa Maxwell: Serve the dinner...

Elsa Maxwell: Serve the dinner...

Serve the dinner backward, do anything but for goodness sake, do something weird.

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Fanny Burney: . . ....

Fanny Burney: . . ....

. . . Imagination took the reins, and Reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to a race with so eccentric...

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Rosa Luxemburg: Without general elections,...

Rosa Luxemburg: Without general elections,...

Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion,...

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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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Minna Thomas Antrim: Doing all we...

Minna Thomas Antrim: Doing all we...

Doing all we can to promote our friend's happiness is better than to continually drink to his...

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Peace Pilgrim: You're in a...

Peace Pilgrim: You're in a...

You're in a much better position to talk with people when they approach you than when you approach...

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Dorothy Height: A Negro woman...

Dorothy Height: A Negro woman...

A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can,t take the same things for...

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Fannie Lou Hamer: I'm sick and...

Fannie Lou Hamer: I'm sick and...

I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired.

Source: In Famous Black Quotations, ed....

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Hannah Whitall Smith: The mother eagle...

Hannah Whitall Smith: The mother eagle...

The mother eagle teachers her little ones to fly by making their nest so uncomfortable that they are forced to leave...

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Elizabeth Arden: Death not merely...

Elizabeth Arden: Death not merely...

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which...

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Glenda Jackson: Acting provides the...

Glenda Jackson: Acting provides the...

Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always...

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Ruby Dee: The kind of...

Ruby Dee: The kind of...

The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within -- strength, courage,...

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Carrie Fisher: I think of...

Carrie Fisher: I think of...

I think of my body as a side effect of my mind. Like a thought I had once that manifested itself-- Oops! Oh no!...

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Lily Tomlin: The trouble with...

Lily Tomlin: The trouble with...

The trouble with the rat race is that if you win you're still a rat.

Source: In...

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