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Midge Decter: We proclaimed you...

Midge Decter: We proclaimed you...

We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is...

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Midge Decter: The hatred of...

Midge Decter: The hatred of...

The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be...

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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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Phyllis George: The most popular...

Phyllis George: The most popular...

The most popular labor-saving device is still money.

Source: In The Last Word - A...

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Simone de Beauvoir: I tore myself...

Simone de Beauvoir: I tore myself...

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded...

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Suzanne Curchod Necker: Obstinacy is ever...

Suzanne Curchod Necker: Obstinacy is ever...

Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.

Source: In The Last...

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Christina Baldwin: How we remember,...

Christina Baldwin: How we remember,...

How we remember, what we remember, and why we remember form the most personal map of our...

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Hortense Calisher: First publication is...

Hortense Calisher: First publication is...

First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life.

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Peace Pilgrim: We have all...

Peace Pilgrim: We have all...

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Source: In The...

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Angela Davis: Radical simply means...

Angela Davis: Radical simply means...

Radical simply means grasping things at the root.

Source: Let Us All Rise Together,...

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Harriet Martineau: Laws and customs...

Harriet Martineau: Laws and customs...

Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and...

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Babe Didrikson Zaharias: That little white...

Babe Didrikson Zaharias: That little white...

That little white ball won't move until you hit it, and there's nothing you can do after it has...

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Helen Rowland: A man loses...

Helen Rowland: A man loses...

A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last.

Source: In...

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: I do not...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: I do not...

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone...

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Simone de Beauvoir: One is not...

Simone de Beauvoir: One is not...

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

Source: The Second Sex, Knopf...

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Simone de Beauvoir: One is not...

Simone de Beauvoir: One is not...

One is not born a genius. One becomes a genius.

Source: The Second Sex,...

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Belle Livingstone: Like Moses, I...

Belle Livingstone: Like Moses, I...

Like Moses, I wasn't born. l was found.

Source: Belle Out of Order, Pt. 1, Ch. I,...

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Suzanne LaFollette: Until economic freedom...

Suzanne LaFollette: Until economic freedom...

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for...

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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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Carol Gilligan: The blind willingness...

Carol Gilligan: The blind willingness...

The blind willingness to sacrifice people to truth, however, has always been the danger of an ethics abstracted from...

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