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George Eliot: There are men...

George Eliot: There are men...

There are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence.

Source: Romola,...

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Jane Austen: With men he...

Jane Austen: With men he...

With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: Women are the...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: Women are the...

Women are the real architects of society.

Source: In Atlantic Monthly, 1864.
--...

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Mary Wortley Montagu: No modest man...

Mary Wortley Montagu: No modest man...

No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Rita Mae Brown: Creativity comes from...

Rita Mae Brown: Creativity comes from...

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

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Emily Dickinson: Unto a broken...

Emily Dickinson: Unto a broken...

Unto a broken heart
No other one may go
Without the high prerogative
Itself hath suffered...

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Simone de Beauvoir: A man would...

Simone de Beauvoir: A man would...

A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human...

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Maya Angelou: Education helps one...

Maya Angelou: Education helps one...

Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.

Source: In...

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Maya Angelou: My great hope...

Maya Angelou: My great hope...

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to...

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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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Susan B Anthony: Failure is impossible....

Susan B Anthony: Failure is impossible....

Failure is impossible.

Source: In Is Woman Suffrage Progressing?, by Carrie Chapman...

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Susan B Anthony: The true Republic:...

Susan B Anthony: The true Republic:...

The true Republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing...

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Helen Keller: It gives me...

Helen Keller: It gives me...

It gives me a deep comforting sense that things seen are temporal and things unseen are...

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Dorothy Parker: Four things I...

Dorothy Parker: Four things I...

Four things I am wiser to know:
Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.


Source:...

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Dorothy Parker: Just begin a...

Dorothy Parker: Just begin a...

Just begin a story with such a phrase as 'I remember Disraeli - poor old Dizz! - once saying to me, in answer to my...

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Dorothy Parker: I'd like to...

Dorothy Parker: I'd like to...

I'd like to have money. And I'd like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if...

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Dorothy Parker: You can lead...

Dorothy Parker: You can lead...

You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.

Source: Speech to...

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Maya Angelou: The need for...

Maya Angelou: The need for...

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

Source: I Know Why...

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Susan Sontag: For those who...

Susan Sontag: For those who...

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as...

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Susan Sontag: Life is a...

Susan Sontag: Life is a...

Life is a movie. Death is a photograph.

Source:
-- Susan Sontag, (Jan 16...

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