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Isabel Burton: Without any cant,...

Isabel Burton: Without any cant,...

Without any cant, does not Providence provide wonderfully for us?

Source: Arabia...

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Ann Oakley: Housework is work...

Ann Oakley: Housework is work...

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

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Rebecca West: [Writing] has nothing...

Rebecca West: [Writing] has nothing...

[Writing] has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different...

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Andrea Dworkin: In this society,...

Andrea Dworkin: In this society,...

In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and...

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Alice James: You must remember...

Alice James: You must remember...

You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is...

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Margaret Anderson: My unreality is...

Margaret Anderson: My unreality is...

My unreality is chiefly this: I have never felt much like a human being. It's a splendid...

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Helen Gurley Brown: No office anywhere...

Helen Gurley Brown: No office anywhere...

No office anywhere on earth is so puritanical, impeccable, elegant, sterile or incorruptible as not to contain the...

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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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Jamaica Kincaid: I swim in...

Jamaica Kincaid: I swim in...

I swim in a shaft of light, upside down, and I can see myself clearly, through and through, from every angle. Perhaps...

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Emmeline Pankhurst: You have to...

Emmeline Pankhurst: You have to...

You have to be there all the time and see that they do not snow you under, if you are really going to get your reform...

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Helen Keller: It's wonderful to...

Helen Keller: It's wonderful to...

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no...

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Dorothy Parker: Four be the...

Dorothy Parker: Four be the...

Four be the things I'd been better without:
Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.


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Patricia McKillip: [Imagination] is best...

Patricia McKillip: [Imagination] is best...

[Imagination] is best fed by reality, an odd diet for something nonexistent; there are few details of daily life and...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: Home is a...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Home is a...

Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserved; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom,...

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Lisa Alther: What a surprise...

Lisa Alther: What a surprise...

What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a...

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Shirley Hufstedler: The role of...

Shirley Hufstedler: The role of...

The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most...

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George Eliot: Life is measured...

George Eliot: Life is measured...

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the...

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George Eliot: The beginning of...

George Eliot: The beginning of...

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

Source: Felix Holt,...

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George Eliot: Great feelings will...

George Eliot: Great feelings will...

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of...

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Jane Austen: I have been...

Jane Austen: I have been...

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

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