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Helen Keller: God, Himself, is...

Helen Keller: God, Himself, is...

God, Himself, is not secure, having given man dominion over His work.

Source: In...

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Anne Frank: If I read...

Anne Frank: If I read...

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly in hand before I mix with other people; otherwise...

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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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Fran Lebowitz: Children make the...

Fran Lebowitz: Children make the...

Children make the most desirable opponents in Scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to...

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Jill Johnston: Bisexuality is not...

Jill Johnston: Bisexuality is not...

Bisexuality is not so much a copout as a fearful compromise.

Source: Lesbian...

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Mary Ashton Livermore: One would suppose...

Mary Ashton Livermore: One would suppose...

One would suppose in reading them that women possess but one class of physical organs, and that these are always...

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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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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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Miriam Beard: Wherever we go,...

Miriam Beard: Wherever we go,...

Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as the bizarre. Things astonish us,...

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Marilyn French: Oh, God, why...

Marilyn French: Oh, God, why...

Oh, God, why don't I remember that a little chaos is good for the soul?

Source: In...

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Florence King: Time has lost...

Florence King: Time has lost...

Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American...

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Susan Sontag: Intelligence. . ....

Susan Sontag: Intelligence. . ....

Intelligence. . . is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Source: Against...

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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: Wealth of any...

Andrea Dworkin: Wealth of any...

Wealth of any kind, is an expression of male sexual power.

Source: Pornography,...

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Fran Lebowitz: Very few people...

Fran Lebowitz: Very few people...

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the...

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Jane Bryant Quinn: The shortest recorded...

Jane Bryant Quinn: The shortest recorded...

The shortest recorded period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the...

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Janet Flanner: Women have invented...

Janet Flanner: Women have invented...

Women have invented nothing in all that, except the men who were born as male babies and grew up to be men big enough...

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Anna Quindlen: It makes me...

Anna Quindlen: It makes me...

It makes me angry to think that . . . female sanitation workers will spend their days doing a job most of their...

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Helen Rowland: Every man wants...

Helen Rowland: Every man wants...

Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts and his higher nature --and another woman...

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Only in growth,...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Only in growth,...

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.

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