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Helen Rowland: Never trust a...

Helen Rowland: Never trust a...

Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.

Source: The Rubaiyat of a...

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Helen Rowland: Why does a...

Helen Rowland: Why does a...

Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her --when, nine times out of...

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Erma Bombeck: When my kids...

Erma Bombeck: When my kids...

When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb...

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Susan B Anthony: Woman must not...

Susan B Anthony: Woman must not...

Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.

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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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Dorothy Parker: Lips that taste...

Dorothy Parker: Lips that taste...

Lips that taste of tears, they say
Are the best for kissing.


Source:...

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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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Rebecca Harding Davis: Reform is born...

Rebecca Harding Davis: Reform is born...

Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented,...

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Helen Rowland: Between lovers a...

Helen Rowland: Between lovers a...

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Source: Reflections of a...

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Helen Rowland: The honeymoon is...

Helen Rowland: The honeymoon is...

The honeymoon is not actually over until we cease to stifle our sighs and begin to stifle our...

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Gertrude Stein: Literature -- creative...

Gertrude Stein: Literature -- creative...

Literature -- creative literature -- unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.

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Mary Wortley Montagu: It is eleven...

Mary Wortley Montagu: It is eleven...

It is eleven years since I have seen my figure in a glass. The last reflection I saw there was so disagreeable, I...

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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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George Eliot: No soul is...

George Eliot: No soul is...

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and...

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George Eliot: Renunciation remains sorrow,...

George Eliot: Renunciation remains sorrow,...

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

Source: The Mill on...

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George Eliot: Nothing is so...

George Eliot: Nothing is so...

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Source: Silas Marner, 1861
-- George...

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Hannah Arendt: The point, as...

Hannah Arendt: The point, as...

The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.

Source: Crises of the...

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Helen Hunt Jackson: Oh, write of...

Helen Hunt Jackson: Oh, write of...

Oh, write of me, not Died in bitter pains,
But Emigrated to another star!


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Rita Mae Brown: Lead me not...

Rita Mae Brown: Lead me not...

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.

Source: From a collection...

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Rita Mae Brown: Language is the...

Rita Mae Brown: Language is the...

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are...

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