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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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Shana Alexander: I don't believe...

Shana Alexander: I don't believe...

I don't believe man is woman's natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is.

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Jane Smiley: I have noticed...

Jane Smiley: I have noticed...

I have noticed before that there is a category of acquaintanceship that is not friendship or business or romance, but...

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Monica Baldwin: The refectory is...

Monica Baldwin: The refectory is...

The refectory is a cenacle in which the taking of food is transfigured almost into a...

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Molly Ivins: I believe in...

Molly Ivins: I believe in...

I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.

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Maya Angelou: For Africa to...

Maya Angelou: For Africa to...

For Africa to me. . . is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going...

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Andrea Dworkin: Men are rewarded...

Andrea Dworkin: Men are rewarded...

Men are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity by money, admiration,...

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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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Rona Barrett: The healthy, the...

Rona Barrett: The healthy, the...

The healthy, the strong individual, is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has an abscess on his...

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Marya Mannes: Timing and arrogance...

Marya Mannes: Timing and arrogance...

Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.

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Helen Rowland: Nowadays love is...

Helen Rowland: Nowadays love is...

Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of...

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Helen Rowland: There's so much...

Helen Rowland: There's so much...

There's so much saint in the worst of them, and so much devil in the best of them, that a woman who's married to one...

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Writing is thinking....

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Writing is thinking....

Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.

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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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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: How reconcile this...

Helen Keller: How reconcile this...

How reconcile this world of fact with the bright world of my imagining? My darkness has been filled with the light of...

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Helen Keller: We cannot freely...

Helen Keller: We cannot freely...

We cannot freely and wisely choose the right way for ourselves unless we know both good and...

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Dorothy Parker: By the time...

Dorothy Parker: By the time...

By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing,
And he vows his passion is
Infinite, undying...

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Dorothy Parker: If all the...

Dorothy Parker: If all the...

If all the girls attending it were laid end to end - I wouldn't be at all surprised.

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