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Dorothy Uhnak: It's funny how...

Dorothy Uhnak: It's funny how...

It's funny how your initial approach to a person can determine your feelings toward them, no matter what facts develop...

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Lady Marguerite Blessington: Mountains appear more...

Lady Marguerite Blessington: Mountains appear more...

Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this...

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Lady Marguerite Blessington: Happiness is a...

Lady Marguerite Blessington: Happiness is a...

Happiness is a rare plant, that seldom takes root on earth -- few ever enjoyed it, except for a brief period; the...

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Katherine F Gerould: Civilization is merely...

Katherine F Gerould: Civilization is merely...

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty...

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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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Harriet Tubman: Twan't me, 'twas...

Harriet Tubman: Twan't me, 'twas...

Twan't me, 'twas de Lord! Jes' so long as he wanted to use me, he would take keer of me, an' when he didn't want me no...

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Andrea Dworkin: Childbearing is glorified...

Andrea Dworkin: Childbearing is glorified...

Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it.

Source: Pornography,...

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Barbara Sher: Every single one...

Barbara Sher: Every single one...

Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do -- can love things that no one else can love. We are like...

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Susan Sontag: I was not...

Susan Sontag: I was not...

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my...

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Elizabeth Hardwick: Letters are useful...

Elizabeth Hardwick: Letters are useful...

Letters are useful as a means of expressing the ideal self. . . . In letters we can reform without practice, beg...

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Alice Embree: The mass media...

Alice Embree: The mass media...

The mass media molds everyone into more passive roles, into roles of more frantic consuming, into human beings with...

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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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Andrea Dworkin: Romantic love, in...

Andrea Dworkin: Romantic love, in...

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined...

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Andrea Dworkin: Poetry, the genre...

Andrea Dworkin: Poetry, the genre...

Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a...

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Janet Flanner: Genius is immediate,...

Janet Flanner: Genius is immediate,...

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.

Source: In The Wit & Wisdom of Women,...

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Fran Lebowitz: Remember that as...

Fran Lebowitz: Remember that as...

Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is...

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Molly Ivins: With politicians, artful...

Molly Ivins: With politicians, artful...

With politicians, artful evasion is always preferable to the outright be.

Source: ...

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Phyllis George: Crafts make us...

Phyllis George: Crafts make us...

Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancestors used to create...

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: I understand why...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: I understand why...

I understand why the saints were rarely married women. It has primarily to do with distractions . . . Woman's normal...

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Brenda Ueland: So you see...

Brenda Ueland: So you see...

So you see the imagination needs moodling, - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and...

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