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Shana Alexander: Trying to squash...

Shana Alexander: Trying to squash...

Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.

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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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Dorothy Uhnak: There weren't many...

Dorothy Uhnak: There weren't many...

There weren't many unusual events to clutter up her memory, so she hung on to the ones she...

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Gloria Evangelina Anzaldua: What we say...

Gloria Evangelina Anzaldua: What we say...

What we say and what we do ultimately comes back to us so let us own our responsibility, place it in our hands and...

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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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Brenda Ueland: These people who...

Brenda Ueland: These people who...

These people who are always briskly doing something and as busy as waltzing mice, they have little, sharp, staccato...

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Helen Rowland: A man can...

Helen Rowland: A man can...

A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little...

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Helen Rowland: Some women can...

Helen Rowland: Some women can...

Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be...

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Eda LeShan: Education is in...

Eda LeShan: Education is in...

Education is in danger of becoming a religion based on fear; its doctrine is to compete. [O]ur children are being led...

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Ann Oakley: In our defence...

Ann Oakley: In our defence...

In our defence of biology and its mystique we are blind to the dangers of power. Women as the guardians of children...

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Billie Holiday: I never had...

Billie Holiday: I never had...

I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years...

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Fanny Brice: I never liked...

Fanny Brice: I never liked...

I never liked the men I loved, and never loved the men I liked.

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Oprah Winfrey: When I look...

Oprah Winfrey: When I look...

When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.

Source: In The...

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Emily Dickinson: He ate and...

Emily Dickinson: He ate and...

He ate and drank the precious Words,
His Spirit grew robust;
He knew no more that he was poor,
Nor that his...

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Audre Lorde: Art is not...

Audre Lorde: Art is not...

Art is not living. It is a use of living. The artist has the ability to take that living and use it in a certain way,...

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Anna Letitia Barbauld: The most characteristic...

Anna Letitia Barbauld: The most characteristic...

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for...

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Eleanor Robson Belmont: I was trained...

Eleanor Robson Belmont: I was trained...

I was trained by my husband. He said, If you want a thing done go. If not send. I belong to that group of people who...

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Whoopi Goldberg: When you are...

Whoopi Goldberg: When you are...

When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like...

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Phylicia Rashad: [Meditation] is the...

Phylicia Rashad: [Meditation] is the...

[Meditation] is the power that leads you to your own truth. Everybody needs to be free. The main thing meditation...

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Julie Andrews: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!<br>Even though the...

Julie Andrews: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
Even though the...

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious!
If you say it loud...

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