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Irene Peter: Just because everything...

Irene Peter: Just because everything...

Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.

Source: In...

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Irene Peter: Always be sincere,...

Irene Peter: Always be sincere,...

Always be sincere, even when you don't mean it.

Source: In Quote Disk 1,2,3, by ...

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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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Helen Gurley Brown: The only thing...

Helen Gurley Brown: The only thing...

The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very...

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Barbara Smith: Black women, whose...

Barbara Smith: Black women, whose...

Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom...

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Jean Kerr: Man is the...

Jean Kerr: Man is the...

Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes...

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Jamaica Kincaid: I swim in...

Jamaica Kincaid: I swim in...

I swim in a shaft of light, upside down, and I can see myself clearly, through and through, from every angle. Perhaps...

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Janet Flanner: The stench of...

Janet Flanner: The stench of...

The stench of human wreckage in which the Nazi regime finally sank down to defeat has been the most shocking fact of...

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Mignon McLaughlin: Every society honors...

Mignon McLaughlin: Every society honors...

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Source: The...

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Erma Bombeck: When I stand...

Erma Bombeck: When I stand...

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and...

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Dorothy Thompson: Even in life...

Dorothy Thompson: Even in life...

Even in life [Sinclair Lewis] was fully alive only in his writing. He lives in public libraries from Maine to...

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Jane Howard: New links must...

Jane Howard: New links must...

New links must be forged as old ones rust.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for...

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Florence King: We worship education...

Florence King: We worship education...

We worship education but hate learning.

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-- Florence King, (Jan 5...

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Florence King: Familiarity doesn't breed...

Florence King: Familiarity doesn't breed...

Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.

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-- Florence King,...

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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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Katharine Whitehorn: The best career...

Katharine Whitehorn: The best career...

The best career advice given to the young is Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing...

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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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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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Elsa Maxwell: Under pressure, people...

Elsa Maxwell: Under pressure, people...

Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being...

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