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Elizabeth Bishop: Icebergs behoove the...

Elizabeth Bishop: Icebergs behoove the...

Icebergs behoove the soul (Both being self-made from elements least visible) to see themselves: fleshed, fair,...

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Anne Hutchinson: She was a...

Anne Hutchinson: She was a...

She was a woman of haughty and fierce carriage, a nimble wit and active spirit, a very voluble tongue, more bold than...

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Virginia Woolf: On the outskirts...

Virginia Woolf: On the outskirts...

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

Source:...

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Mary Astell: Women are not...

Mary Astell: Women are not...

Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their chains,...

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Angela Davis: Progressive art can...

Angela Davis: Progressive art can...

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they...

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Helen Keller: Your success and...

Helen Keller: Your success and...

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host...

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Jeanne-Marie Roland: The feeble tremble...

Jeanne-Marie Roland: The feeble tremble...

The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct...

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Rachel Carson: In every out...

Rachel Carson: In every out...

In every out thrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is a story of the...

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Carry Nation: You have put...

Carry Nation: You have put...

You have put me in here a cub, but I will come out roaring like a lion, and I will make all hell...

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Jane Addams: Old-fashioned ways which...

Jane Addams: Old-fashioned ways which...

Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always...

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Martina Navratilova: Being blunt with...

Martina Navratilova: Being blunt with...

Being blunt with your feelings is very American. In this big country, I can be as brash as New York, as hedonistic as...

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Althea Gibson: I don't want...

Althea Gibson: I don't want...

I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I just want to be reasonably successful and live a normal life with all the...

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Florence Griffith Joyner: I don't look...

Florence Griffith Joyner: I don't look...

I don't look at myself as being famous. I look at myself as an athlete. If the money is there, I'd be happy, but I...

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Amelia Earhart: The soul that...

Amelia Earhart: The soul that...

The soul that knows [courage] not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of...

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Marie Curie: There are sadistic...

Marie Curie: There are sadistic...

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down error instead of establishing the...

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Peace Pilgrim: Before the tongue...

Peace Pilgrim: Before the tongue...

Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.

Source: In The...

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Mary Baker Eddy: Truth is immortal;...

Mary Baker Eddy: Truth is immortal;...

Truth is immortal; error is mortal.

Source: In Correct Quotes for DOS, WordStar...

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Emma Goldman: Revolution is but...

Emma Goldman: Revolution is but...

Revolution is but thought carried into action.

Source: In The Feminist Papers, ed....

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Ada Louise Huxtable: The age of...

Ada Louise Huxtable: The age of...

The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now...

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Hillary Rodham Clinton: I believe that...

Hillary Rodham Clinton: I believe that...

I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of...

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