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Mary Pickford: Supposing you have...

Mary Pickford: Supposing you have...

Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing...

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Molly Ivins: With politicians, artful...

Molly Ivins: With politicians, artful...

With politicians, artful evasion is always preferable to the outright be.

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Katherine F Gerould: Funny how people...

Katherine F Gerould: Funny how people...

Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true...

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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 isn't tying...

Helen Rowland: It isn't tying...

It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying, it's separating himself from all the...

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Helen Rowland: Love, the quest;...

Helen Rowland: Love, the quest;...

Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.

Source: Reflections...

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Helen Rowland: The hardest task...

Helen Rowland: The hardest task...

The hardest task of a girl's life, nowadays, is to prove to a man that his intentions are...

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Letty Cottin Pogrebin: Children's liberation is...

Letty Cottin Pogrebin: Children's liberation is...

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

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Molly Haskell: Madness is always...

Molly Haskell: Madness is always...

Madness is always fascinating, for it reveals the ungluing we all secretly fear: the mind taking off from the body,...

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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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Dorothy Parker: It costs me...

Dorothy Parker: It costs me...

It costs me never a stab nor squirm
To tread by chance upon a worm.
'Aha, my little dear,' I say,
'Your clan...

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Dorothy Parker: Outspoken by whom?...

Dorothy Parker: Outspoken by whom?...

Outspoken by whom?

Source: When told that she was very outspoken; attributed.
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Christiane Collange: When you belong...

Christiane Collange: When you belong...

When you belong to a minority, you have to be better in order to have the right to be...

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Diana Vreeland: What do I...

Diana Vreeland: What do I...

What do I think about the way most people dress? Most people are not something one thinks...

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Judith Crist: [Youngsters] are nurtured...

Judith Crist: [Youngsters] are nurtured...

[Youngsters] are nurtured from infancy on a Dick-and-Jane literary and artistic level; and the cultural drought, as...

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Jean Kerr: Man is the...

Jean Kerr: Man is the...

Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes...

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Susan L Taylor: Everything hinges on...

Susan L Taylor: Everything hinges on...

Everything hinges on education. Without it, you can't advocate for proper health care, for housing, for a civil rights...

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Babe Didrikson Zaharias: That little white...

Babe Didrikson Zaharias: That little white...

That little white ball won't move until you hit it, and there's nothing you can do after it has...

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Nora Ephron: When you have...

Nora Ephron: When you have...

When you have a baby, you set off an explosion in your marriage, and when the dust settles, your marriage is different...

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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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