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Louisa May Alcott: Good books, like...

Louisa May Alcott: Good books, like...

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

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George Eliot: If you could...

George Eliot: If you could...

If you could make a pudding wi' thinking o' the batter, it 'ud be easy getting dinner.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: The bitterest tears...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: The bitterest tears...

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

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Emily Dickinson: Truth is so...

Emily Dickinson: Truth is so...

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Oprah Winfrey: I am a...

Oprah Winfrey: I am a...

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and...

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Susan B Anthony: Many abolitionists have...

Susan B Anthony: Many abolitionists have...

Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.

Source: Journal,...

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Andrea Dworkin: Genocide begins, however...

Andrea Dworkin: Genocide begins, however...

Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction...

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Helen Rowland: It's easier to...

Helen Rowland: It's easier to...

It's easier to hide your light under a bushel than to keep your shady side dark.

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Helen Rowland: To be happy...

Helen Rowland: To be happy...

To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love...

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Catherine Drinker Bowen: I speak truth,...

Catherine Drinker Bowen: I speak truth,...

I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grown...

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Helen Keller: I can feel...

Helen Keller: I can feel...

I can feel the twinkle of his eye in his handshake.

Source: Reader's Digest,...

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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: Everything has it...

Helen Keller: Everything has it...

Everything has it wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be...

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Helen Keller: I sometimes wonder...

Helen Keller: I sometimes wonder...

I sometimes wonder if the hand is not more sensitive to the beauties of sculpture than the eye. I should think the...

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Helen Keller: No matter how...

Helen Keller: No matter how...

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable...

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Helen Keller: Science may have...

Helen Keller: Science may have...

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of...

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Helen Keller: The highest result...

Helen Keller: The highest result...

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Source: 'Optimism'
-- Helen...

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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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Dorothy Parker: If you want...

Dorothy Parker: If you want...

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.

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Dorothy Parker: All those writers...

Dorothy Parker: All those writers...

All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same...

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