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Nannie Burroughs: Don't wait for...

Nannie Burroughs: Don't wait for...

Don't wait for deliverers.... I like that quotation, Moses, my servant, is dead. Therefore, arise and go over Jordan....

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Martha Carey Thomas: It is the...

Martha Carey Thomas: It is the...

It is the next step forward on the path to the sunrise, and the sun is rising over a new heaven and a new...

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Frances Perkins: But with the...

Frances Perkins: But with the...

But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan...

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Peace Pilgrim: If you realized...

Peace Pilgrim: If you realized...

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.

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Mary Daly: Work is a...

Mary Daly: Work is a...

Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics.

Source: In Words of...

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Betty Friedan: The feminine mystique...

Betty Friedan: The feminine mystique...

The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.

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Barbara Deming: I learned always...

Barbara Deming: I learned always...

I learned always to trust my own deep sense of what I should do, and not just obediently trust the judgment of others...

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Andrea Dworkin: Feminist art is...

Andrea Dworkin: Feminist art is...

Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise...

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Barbara McClintock: When you know...

Barbara McClintock: When you know...

When you know you're right, you don't care what others think. You know sooner or later it will come out in the...

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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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Lucretia Mott: Truth for authority,...

Lucretia Mott: Truth for authority,...

Truth for authority, not authority for truth.

Source: Motto, quoted in The Peerless...

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Lucretia Mott: I resolved to...

Lucretia Mott: I resolved to...

I resolved to claim for my sex all that an impartial Creator had bestowed, which, by custom and a perverted...

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Martina Navratilova: I think the...

Martina Navratilova: I think the...

I think the key is for women not to set any limits.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Althea Gibson: I always wanted...

Althea Gibson: I always wanted...

I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along...

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Althea Gibson: Most of us...

Althea Gibson: Most of us...

Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don't really consider the amount of work required to stay...

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Amelia Earhart: There is so...

Amelia Earhart: There is so...

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

Source: In...

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Amelia Earhart: There are two...

Amelia Earhart: There are two...

There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls.

Source: 20...

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Rachel Carson: For the sense...

Rachel Carson: For the sense...

For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that we use it...

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Pamela Hansford Johnson: We demand that...

Pamela Hansford Johnson: We demand that...

We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be:...

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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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