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Margaret Chase Smith: When people keep...

Margaret Chase Smith: When people keep...

When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it.

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Princess Anne: When I appear...

Princess Anne: When I appear...

When I appear in public people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground and swish my tail - none of which is...

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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: Genius is essentially...

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: Genius is essentially...

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

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Hannah Arendt: There are no...

Hannah Arendt: There are no...

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.

Source: In The New...

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Svetlana Alliluyeva: It is human...

Svetlana Alliluyeva: It is human...

It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes.

Source: On...

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Corazon Aquino: All the world...

Corazon Aquino: All the world...

All the world wondered as they witnessed . . . a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest of...

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Dianne Feinstein: Toughness doesn't have...

Dianne Feinstein: Toughness doesn't have...

Toughness doesn't have to come in a pinstripe suit.

Source: On women's role in...

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Marguerite de Valois: Tears may be...

Marguerite de Valois: Tears may be...

Tears may be dried up, but the heart -- never.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations...

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Mary McLeod Bethune: The true worth...

Mary McLeod Bethune: The true worth...

The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.

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Corrie Ten Boom: It is not...

Corrie Ten Boom: It is not...

It is not my ability, but my response to God's ability, that counts.

Source: In...

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St Teresa of Avila: Untilled soil, however...

St Teresa of Avila: Untilled soil, however...

Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; and so it is with man's...

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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross: People are like...

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross: People are like...

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in,...

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Charlotte Forten Grimke: I wonder that...

Charlotte Forten Grimke: I wonder that...

I wonder that every colored person is not a misanthrope. Surely we have everything to make us hate...

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Mary Jean LeTendre: America's future walks...

Mary Jean LeTendre: America's future walks...

America's future walks through the doors of our schools each day.

Source: In...

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Sylvia Ashton-Warner: I've got to...

Sylvia Ashton-Warner: I've got to...

I've got to relearn what I was supposed to have learned.

Source: Feb 1941, Myself,...

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Mary Ritter Beard: The volumes which...

Mary Ritter Beard: The volumes which...

The volumes which record the history of the human race are filled with the deeds and the words of great men . . ....

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Jacqueline Bisset: Character contributes to...

Jacqueline Bisset: Character contributes to...

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.

Source:...

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Charlotte Bronte: If you are...

Charlotte Bronte: If you are...

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did...

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Since when was...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Since when was...

Since when was genius found respectable?

Source: Aurora Leigh, bk. 6, 1857.
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Anne Frank: Mrs. Van Daan's...

Anne Frank: Mrs. Van Daan's...

Mrs. Van Daan's grizzling is absolutely unbearable; now she can't any longer drive us crazy over the invasion, she...

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