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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross: Learn to get...

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross: Learn to get...

Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself and know that everything in life has a...

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George Eliot: The growing good...

George Eliot: The growing good...

The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me...

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Janet Flanner: The older women...

Janet Flanner: The older women...

The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were...

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Susan Sontag: Cancer patients are...

Susan Sontag: Cancer patients are...

Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is...

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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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Ann Oakley: Clearly, society has...

Ann Oakley: Clearly, society has...

Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the...

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Helen Keller: . . ....

Helen Keller: . . ....

. . . and we could never learn to be brave and patient, if there was only joy in the...

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Sarah Ban Breathnach: Whatever we are...

Sarah Ban Breathnach: Whatever we are...

Whatever we are waiting for -- peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance -- it will...

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Fran Lebowitz: Original thought is...

Fran Lebowitz: Original thought is...

Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly...

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Dorothy Thompson: The kind of...

Dorothy Thompson: The kind of...

The kind of intelligence a genius has is a different sort of intelligence. The thinking of a genius does not proceed...

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Andrea Dworkin: While gossip among...

Andrea Dworkin: While gossip among...

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about...

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Julie Burchill: The freedom that...

Julie Burchill: The freedom that...

The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and...

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Florence King: People are so...

Florence King: People are so...

People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that...

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Shana Alexander: The sad truth...

Shana Alexander: The sad truth...

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Source: The Feminine Eye,...

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Harriet Lerner: We commonly confuse...

Harriet Lerner: We commonly confuse...

We commonly confuse closeness with sameness and view intimacy as the merging of two separate I's into one...

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Monica Baldwin: What makes humility...

Monica Baldwin: What makes humility...

What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest...

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Barbara Ehrenreich: Anyone who has...

Barbara Ehrenreich: Anyone who has...

Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers...

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Kathryn Hulme: The awesome antiphon...

Kathryn Hulme: The awesome antiphon...

The awesome antiphon swelled in the dark and expanded.

Source: On music at early...

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Peace Pilgrim: Worry is a...

Peace Pilgrim: Worry is a...

Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Jane Fonda: When you can't...

Jane Fonda: When you can't...

When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.

Source: In The...

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