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Zora Neale Hurston: I am not...

Zora Neale Hurston: I am not...

I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind...

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Susan Sarandon: Do you really...

Susan Sarandon: Do you really...

Do you really have to be the ice queen intellectual or the slut whore? Isn't there some way to be...

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Joyce A Myers: Teachers can change...

Joyce A Myers: Teachers can change...

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

Source:...

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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: You think intercourse...

Andrea Dworkin: You think intercourse...

You think intercourse is a private act; it's not, it's a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life; and women are...

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Germaine Greer: Perhaps catastrophe is...

Germaine Greer: Perhaps catastrophe is...

Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get...

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Elizabeth Hardwick: The language of...

Elizabeth Hardwick: The language of...

The language of the younger generation. . . has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power . . ....

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Susan Sontag: The truth is...

Susan Sontag: The truth is...

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

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Helen Gurley Brown: The only thing...

Helen Gurley Brown: The only thing...

The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very...

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Christiane Collange: How many women...

Christiane Collange: How many women...

How many women are ready to admit that they are capable of changing the course of their existence by simply taking...

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Erma Bombeck: When humor goes,...

Erma Bombeck: When humor goes,...

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Rosa Luxemburg: Freedom is always...

Rosa Luxemburg: Freedom is always...

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

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Naomi Wolf: The beauty myth...

Naomi Wolf: The beauty myth...

The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the...

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Dorothy Parker: All I say...

Dorothy Parker: All I say...

All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You...

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Helen Rowland: Don't waste time...

Helen Rowland: Don't waste time...

Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new...

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Virgilia Peterson: In Reno [Nevada],...

Virgilia Peterson: In Reno [Nevada],...

In Reno [Nevada], there is always a bull market, never a bear market for the stocks and bonds of...

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Helen Rowland: A husband is...

Helen Rowland: A husband is...

A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.

Source: A...

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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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Grace Paley: . . ....

Grace Paley: . . ....

. . . people will sometimes say, Why don't you write more politics? And I have to explain to them that writing the...

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Simone de Beauvoir: One is not...

Simone de Beauvoir: One is not...

One is not born a genius. One becomes a genius.

Source: The Second Sex,...

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