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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: I believe that...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: I believe that...

I believe that what women resent is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself...

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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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Barbara Ehrenreich: Imagine spending four...

Barbara Ehrenreich: Imagine spending four...

Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and...

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Barbara Ehrenreich: That's free enterprise,...

Barbara Ehrenreich: That's free enterprise,...

That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing --the truly democratic thing...

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Florence King: He travels fastest...

Florence King: He travels fastest...

He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is...

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Peggy Noonan: A great speech...

Peggy Noonan: A great speech...

A great speech is literature.

Source: In Ms. Magazine, 1 Dec 1988.
-- Peggy...

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Peggy Noonan: Candor is a...

Peggy Noonan: Candor is a...

Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.

Source: In...

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Simone de Beauvoir: In order for...

Simone de Beauvoir: In order for...

In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing,...

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Letty Cottin Pogrebin: We need old...

Letty Cottin Pogrebin: We need old...

We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.

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Carolyn Heilbrun: One cannot make...

Carolyn Heilbrun: One cannot make...

One cannot make up stories; one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already...

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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 am all...

Katharine Whitehorn: I am all...

I am all for people having their heart in the right place; but the right place for a heart is not inside the...

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Gail Sheehy: If every day...

Gail Sheehy: If every day...

If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.

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Lynn Caine: Widow is a...

Lynn Caine: Widow is a...

Widow is a harsh and hurtful word. It comes from the Sanskrit and it means empty. I have been empty too...

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Carol Gilligan: In the different...

Carol Gilligan: In the different...

In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility,...

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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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Sarah Siddons: . . ....

Sarah Siddons: . . ....

. . . I believe one half of the world is born for the convenience of the other half . . .

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Marlene Dietrich: Courage and grace...

Marlene Dietrich: Courage and grace...

Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.

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Barbra Streisand: A human being...

Barbra Streisand: A human being...

A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you...

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Camille Paglia: The greatest honor...

Camille Paglia: The greatest honor...

The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it with...

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