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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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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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Virgilia Peterson: A lady, that...

Virgilia Peterson: A lady, that...

A lady, that is an enlightened, cultivated, liberal lady,... could espouse any cause: wayward girls, social diseases,...

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Elsa Maxwell: Bores put you...

Elsa Maxwell: Bores put you...

Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.

Source: How to Do...

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Germaine Greer: Libraries are reservoirs...

Germaine Greer: Libraries are reservoirs...

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy,...

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Susan Sontag: The truth is...

Susan Sontag: The truth is...

The truth is that Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton,...

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Emily Dickinson: Till the first...

Emily Dickinson: Till the first...

Till the first friend dies, we think our ecstasy impersonal, but then discover that he was the cup from which we drank...

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Emily Dickinson: This is my...

Emily Dickinson: This is my...

This is my letter to the World
That never wrote to Me--
The simple News that Nature told--
With tender...

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Maxine Kumin: With the poem,...

Maxine Kumin: With the poem,...

With the poem, I reach out to an audience equally at odds with official policy, and I celebrate our mutual humanness...

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Beah Richards: For me life...

Beah Richards: For me life...

For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a...

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Edith Nesbitt: Time and space...

Edith Nesbitt: Time and space...

Time and space are only forms of thought.

Source: The Story of the Amulet,...

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Sarah Siddons: . . ....

Sarah Siddons: . . ....

. . . I know, by sad experience, with what difficulty a mind, weakened by long and uninterrupted suffering, admits...

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Julie Andrews: Perseverance is failing...

Julie Andrews: Perseverance is failing...

Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.

Source: From...

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Aretha Franklin: And I've been...

Aretha Franklin: And I've been...

And I've been hurt hurt bad. I might be just twenty-six, but I'm an old woman in disguise twenty-six goin'on...

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Miriam Makeba: I look at...

Miriam Makeba: I look at...

I look at a stream and I see myself: a native South African, flowing irresistibly over hard obstacles until they...

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Jessye Norman: The very best...

Jessye Norman: The very best...

The very best thing that could happen to a voice, if it shows any promise at all, is when it is very young to leave it...

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Britney Spears: I'm so happy...

Britney Spears: I'm so happy...

I'm so happy to be able to give kids the opportunity to learn about amazing world of dance and music that I've have...

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Emily Dickinson: We turn not...

Emily Dickinson: We turn not...

We turn not older with years, but newer every day.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Mae West: Right now I...

Mae West: Right now I...

Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be...

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Tallulah Bankhead: I've been called...

Tallulah Bankhead: I've been called...

I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.

Source: Tallulah, ch. 15,...

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