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Helen Rowland: Love: woman's eternal...

Helen Rowland: Love: woman's eternal...

Love: woman's eternal spring and man's eternal fall.

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-- Helen Rowland,...

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Helen Rowland: To a woman...

Helen Rowland: To a woman...

To a woman the first kiss is just the end of the beginning, but to a man it is the beginning of the...

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Helen Rowland: Wedding: the point...

Helen Rowland: Wedding: the point...

Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.

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Catherine Drinker Bowen: Will the reader...

Catherine Drinker Bowen: Will the reader...

Will the reader turn the page?

Source: Note posted in her study, quoted in MD, Jul...

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Harriet Lerner: Anger is a...

Harriet Lerner: Anger is a...

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Source: The Dance of Anger,...

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Naomi Wolf: Western women have...

Naomi Wolf: Western women have...

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material...

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Robin Morgan: There's something contagious...

Robin Morgan: There's something contagious...

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Source: Sisterhood Is...

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Fran Lebowitz: If you are...

Fran Lebowitz: If you are...

If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget...

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Erma Bombeck: Guilt: the gift...

Erma Bombeck: Guilt: the gift...

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

Source: Quoted by John Skow Time, 2 Jul...

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Dorothy Parker: He is beyond...

Dorothy Parker: He is beyond...

He is beyond question a writer of power; and his power lies in his ability to make sex so thoroughly, graphically,...

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Dorothy Parker: Women and elephants...

Dorothy Parker: Women and elephants...

Women and elephants never forget.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for Success,...

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Leontyne Price: If you are...

Leontyne Price: If you are...

If you are going to think black, think positive about it. Don't think down on it, or think it is something in your...

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Emily Dickinson: This is the...

Emily Dickinson: This is the...

This is the Hour of Lead --
Remembered, if outlived,
As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow --
First --Chill...

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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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Tallulah Bankhead: The less I...

Tallulah Bankhead: The less I...

The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning...

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Carrie Fisher: As you get...

Carrie Fisher: As you get...

As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't.

Source: x
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Emily Dickinson: Our journey had...

Emily Dickinson: Our journey had...

Our journey had advanced;
Our feet were almost come
To that odd fork in Being's road,
Eternity by...

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Emily Dickinson: No Life can...

Emily Dickinson: No Life can...

No Life can pompless pass away --
The lowliest career
To the same Pageant wends its way
As that exalted here...

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Alice Meynell: Spirit of place!...

Alice Meynell: Spirit of place!...

Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that...

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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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