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Irene Peter: Today, if you...

Irene Peter: Today, if you...

Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.

Source: In Words of...

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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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Naomi Wolf: Pain is real...

Naomi Wolf: Pain is real...

Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or...

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Shana Alexander: Ballet's image of...

Shana Alexander: Ballet's image of...

Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and...

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Simone de Beauvoir: I tore myself...

Simone de Beauvoir: I tore myself...

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded...

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Elizabeth Janeway: I admire people...

Elizabeth Janeway: I admire people...

I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. . . . They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and...

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Helen Rowland: A man's desire...

Helen Rowland: A man's desire...

A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern...

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Marsha Sinetar: Rather than denying...

Marsha Sinetar: Rather than denying...

Rather than denying problems, focus inventively, intentionally on what solutions might look or feel like. . . . Our...

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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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Helen Rowland: A fool and...

Helen Rowland: A fool and...

A fool and her money are soon courted.

Source: A Guide to Men, First Interlude ...

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: The most exhausting...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: The most exhausting...

The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.

Source:...

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Simone de Beauvoir: If you haven't...

Simone de Beauvoir: If you haven't...

If you haven't been happy very young, you can still be happy later on, but it's much harder. You need more...

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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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Letty Cottin Pogrebin: Boys don't make...

Letty Cottin Pogrebin: Boys don't make...

Boys don't make passes at female smart-asses.

Source: In An Uncommon Scold, by Abby...

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Carolyn Heilbrun: Today's shocks are...

Carolyn Heilbrun: Today's shocks are...

Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for...

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Katharine Whitehorn: The best careers...

Katharine Whitehorn: The best careers...

The best careers advice to give to the young is 'Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for...

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Katharine Whitehorn: I yield to...

Katharine Whitehorn: I yield to...

I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work...

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Katharine Whitehorn: When it comes...

Katharine Whitehorn: When it comes...

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe,...

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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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Belva Lockwood: The glory of...

Belva Lockwood: The glory of...

The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents.

Source: Quoted in: Mary...

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