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Florence King: Showing up at...

Florence King: Showing up at...

Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start...

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Helen Rowland: It's easier to...

Helen Rowland: It's easier to...

It's easier to hide your light under a bushel than to keep your shady side dark.

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: There is no...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: There is no...

There is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.

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Suzanne LaFollette: There is nothing...

Suzanne LaFollette: There is nothing...

There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been...

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Letty Cottin Pogrebin: Lifestyles and sex...

Letty Cottin Pogrebin: Lifestyles and sex...

Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blue eyes or small...

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Liz Carpenter: Instead of looking...

Liz Carpenter: Instead of looking...

Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to...

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Barbara Grizzuti Harrison: Fantasies are more...

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison: Fantasies are more...

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed...

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Carol Gilligan: Implicitly adopting the...

Carol Gilligan: Implicitly adopting the...

Implicitly adopting the male life as the norm, they have tried to fashion women out of a masculine cloth. It all goes...

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Carol Gilligan: . ....

Carol Gilligan: . ....

. . . while men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance...

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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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Christiane Collange: We all have...

Christiane Collange: We all have...

We all have a tendency to obscure the forest of simple joys with the trees of problems.

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Diana Vreeland: The only real...

Diana Vreeland: The only real...

The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.

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Fran Lebowitz: To me the...

Fran Lebowitz: To me the...

To me the outdoors is what you must pass through in order to get from your apartment into a...

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Lisa Alther: I happen to...

Lisa Alther: I happen to...

I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting...

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Jean Rhys: I like shape...

Jean Rhys: I like shape...

I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any.

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Anna Sewell: Master said, God...

Anna Sewell: Master said, God...

Master said, God had given men reason, by which they could find out things for themselves; but He gave animals...

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Tama Janowitz: Crimes, sins, nightmares,...

Tama Janowitz: Crimes, sins, nightmares,...

Crimes, sins, nightmares, hunks of hair: it was surprising how many of them has something to dispose of. The more I...

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Joyce Brothers: A philosopher is...

Joyce Brothers: A philosopher is...

A philosopher is a person who doesn't care which side his bread is buttered on; he knows he eats both sides...

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George Eliot: Our virtues are...

George Eliot: Our virtues are...

Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound...

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Enid Bagnold: When a man...

Enid Bagnold: When a man...

When a man goes through six years' training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too...

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