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Mary Pettibone Poole: Experience is what...

Mary Pettibone Poole: Experience is what...

Experience is what you get looking for something else.

Source: A Glass Eye at a...

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Barbara Sher: Real obstacles don't...

Barbara Sher: Real obstacles don't...

Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a...

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Harriet Ann Jacobs: Hot weather brings...

Harriet Ann Jacobs: Hot weather brings...

Hot weather brings out snakes and slaveholders, and I like one class of the venomous creatures as little as I do the...

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Elizabeth Montagu: To judge therefore...

Elizabeth Montagu: To judge therefore...

To judge therefore of Shakespeare by Aristotle's rule is like trying a man by the Laws of one Country who acted under...

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Etty Hillesum: After each creative...

Etty Hillesum: After each creative...

After each creative act one has to be sustained by one's strength of character, by a moral sense, by I don't know...

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Invention, it must...

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Invention, it must...

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of voice, but out of...

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Jill Ruckelshaus: It occurred to...

Jill Ruckelshaus: It occurred to...

It occurred to me when I was thirteen and wearing white gloves and Mary Janes and going to dancing school, that no one...

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Margaret Thatcher: I have a...

Margaret Thatcher: I have a...

I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiques . . . noting a certain similarity of words, a certain...

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Dianne Feinstein: Women have begun...

Dianne Feinstein: Women have begun...

Women have begun to see that if I go through that doorway, I take everybody through it.

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M F K Fisher: . . ....

M F K Fisher: . . ....

. . . word-sniffing . . . is an addiction, like glue -- or snow -- sniffing in a somewhat less destructive way,...

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Ruth Westheimer: Don't stint on...

Ruth Westheimer: Don't stint on...

Don't stint on foreplay -- or afterplay. Be inventive!

Source: In Words of Wisdom,...

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Sarah Louise Delany: I never let...

Sarah Louise Delany: I never let...

I never let prejudice stop me from what I wanted to do in this life.

Source: Having...

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Johnnetta Betsch Cole: [W]hen we were...

Johnnetta Betsch Cole: [W]hen we were...

[W]hen we were little girls sitting between those knees that served like locks, when they came with that brush or...

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Johnnetta Betsch Cole: The myth of...

Johnnetta Betsch Cole: The myth of...

The myth of black women profiting at the expense of black men is the oldest rap around.

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Frances Perkins: But with the...

Frances Perkins: But with the...

But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan...

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Sylvia Ashton-Warner: I see the...

Sylvia Ashton-Warner: I see the...

I see the mind of a 5-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and...

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Barbara Tuchman: To a historian...

Barbara Tuchman: To a historian...

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

Source: Practising...

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Mary McLeod Bethune: Next to God...

Mary McLeod Bethune: Next to God...

Next to God we are indebted
to women, first for life itself,
and then for making it
worth...

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Suzanne K Langer: The secret of...

Suzanne K Langer: The secret of...

The secret of fusion is the fact that the artist's eye sees in nature . . . an inexhaustible wealth of tension,...

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Ingrid Bergman: Success is getting...

Ingrid Bergman: Success is getting...

Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.

Source: In The...

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