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Helen Hunt Jackson: Who waits until...

Helen Hunt Jackson: Who waits until...

Who waits until the wind shall silent keep.
Will never find the ready hour to sow.


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Rita Mae Brown: If the world...

Rita Mae Brown: If the world...

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side-saddle.

Source: Sudden...

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Mary Wortley Montagu: Life is too...

Mary Wortley Montagu: Life is too...

Life is too short for a long story.

Source: Letter, 19 Jul 1759; in Selected...

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Emily Dickinson: I never saw...

Emily Dickinson: I never saw...

I never saw a moor,
I never saw the sea;
Yet know I how the heather looks,
And what a wave must...

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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 don't think...

Oprah Winfrey: I don't think...

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early...

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Helen Rowland: Marriage is the...

Helen Rowland: Marriage is the...

Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an...

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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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Helen Rowland: Marrying an old...

Helen Rowland: Marrying an old...

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

Source: Reflections...

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Helen Rowland: When you see...

Helen Rowland: When you see...

When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.

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Simone de Beauvoir: Buying is a...

Simone de Beauvoir: Buying is a...

Buying is a profound pleasure.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Simone de Beauvoir: The most mediocre...

Simone de Beauvoir: The most mediocre...

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

Source:...

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Lynn Caine: Our society is...

Lynn Caine: Our society is...

Our society is set up so that most women lose their identities when their husbands die.

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Susan B Anthony: Sooner or later...

Susan B Anthony: Sooner or later...

Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the...

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Peace Pilgrim: The purpose of...

Peace Pilgrim: The purpose of...

The purpose of problems is to push you toward obedience to God's laws, which are exact and cannot be changed. We have...

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Peace Pilgrim: The way of...

Peace Pilgrim: The way of...

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all...

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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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Andrea Dworkin: Being a Jew,...

Andrea Dworkin: Being a Jew,...

Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human...

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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: Alone we can...

Helen Keller: Alone we can...

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Source: In Webster's...

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