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Clara Barton: An institution or...

Clara Barton: An institution or...

An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding...

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Emily Dickinson: My only sketch,...

Emily Dickinson: My only sketch,...

My only sketch, profile, of Heaven is a large blue sky, and larger than the biggest I have seen in June -- and in it...

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Beah Richards: Heaven and earth!...

Beah Richards: Heaven and earth!...

Heaven and earth! How is it that bodies join but never meet?

Source: It's Time for...

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Ma Rainey: White folks hear...

Ma Rainey: White folks hear...

White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.

Source:...

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Judy Collins: I think people...

Judy Collins: I think people...

I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must...

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Helen Rowland: A man snatches...

Helen Rowland: A man snatches...

A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth -- and...

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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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Florence King: We want a...

Florence King: We want a...

We want a president who is as much like an American tourist as possible. Someone with the same goofy grin, the same...

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Simone de Beauvoir: Let women be...

Simone de Beauvoir: Let women be...

Let women be provided with living strength of their own. Let them have the means to attack the world and wrest from...

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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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Lady Marguerite Blessington: Friends are the...

Lady Marguerite Blessington: Friends are the...

Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.

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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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Grace Paley: All that is...

Grace Paley: All that is...

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad, or...

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Jane Howard: Parents, however old...

Jane Howard: Parents, however old...

Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As...

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Susan B Anthony: [Bicycling] has done...

Susan B Anthony: [Bicycling] has done...

[Bicycling] has done more to emancipate women than any one thing in the world. It gives her a feeling of self-reliance...

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Susan B Anthony: Oh, yes. I'd...

Susan B Anthony: Oh, yes. I'd...

Oh, yes. I'd do it all again; the spirit is willing yet; I feel the same desire to do the work but the flesh is weak....

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Susan Sontag: It is only...

Susan Sontag: It is only...

It is only the fear of malpractice that keeps doctors candid in this country.

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Susan Sontag: Volume depends precisely...

Susan Sontag: Volume depends precisely...

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year,...

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Helen Keller: . . ....

Helen Keller: . . ....

. . . militarism . . . is one of the chief bulwarks of capitalism, and the day that militarism is undermined,...

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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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