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Colette Dowling: The woman who...

Colette Dowling: The woman who...

The woman who has sprung free has emotional mobility. She is able to move toward the things that are satisfying to...

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Marsha Sinetar: To find in...

Marsha Sinetar: To find in...

To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business, for it means that once we know we must seek it. ...

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Barbara Ehrenreich: The discovery of...

Barbara Ehrenreich: The discovery of...

The discovery of poverty at the beginning of the 1960s was something like the discovery of America almost 500 years...

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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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Victoria Claffin Woodhull: All that is...

Victoria Claffin Woodhull: All that is...

All that is good and commendable now existing would continue to exist if all marriage laws were repealed tomorrow . ....

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Germaine Greer: Perhaps catastrophe is...

Germaine Greer: Perhaps catastrophe is...

Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get...

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Lucy Stone: In education, in...

Lucy Stone: In education, in...

In education, in marriage, in religion, in everything, disappointment is the lot of women. It shall be the business...

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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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Marge Piercy: The pitcher cries...

Marge Piercy: The pitcher cries...

The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.

Source:...

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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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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: It takes as...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: It takes as...

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: The loneliness you...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: The loneliness you...

The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's...

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Peggy Noonan: A great speech...

Peggy Noonan: A great speech...

A great speech is literature.

Source: In Ms. Magazine, 1 Dec 1988.
-- Peggy...

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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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Cynthia Heimel: Men, being conditioned...

Cynthia Heimel: Men, being conditioned...

Men, being conditioned badly, are always feeling nooses closing around their necks, even dumpy boors no girl would...

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Gail Sheehy: Would that there...

Gail Sheehy: Would that there...

Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful...

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Sheila Ballantyne: Some of my...

Sheila Ballantyne: Some of my...

Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years.

Source: Norma...

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Annie Dillard: No child on...

Annie Dillard: No child on...

No child on earth was ever meant to be ordinary, and you can see it in them, and they know it, too, but then the times...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: Home is a...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Home is a...

Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserved; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom,...

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Margery Allingham: Mourning is not...

Margery Allingham: Mourning is not...

Mourning is not forgetting. . . . It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and...

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