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Amelia Earhart: The woman who...

Amelia Earhart: The woman who...

The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.

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Rachel Carson: For the sense...

Rachel Carson: For the sense...

For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that we use it...

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Grace Speare: Think and feel...

Grace Speare: Think and feel...

Think and feel yourself there! To achieve any aim in life, you need to project the end-result. Think of the elation,...

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Anne Hutchinson: She was a...

Anne Hutchinson: She was a...

She was a woman of haughty and fierce carriage, a nimble wit and active spirit, a very voluble tongue, more bold than...

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Peace Pilgrim: World peace will...

Peace Pilgrim: World peace will...

World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it.

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Hannah Whitall Smith: Decisions of our...

Hannah Whitall Smith: Decisions of our...

Decisions of our will are often directly opposed to the decisions of our emotions. If we are in the habit of...

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Andrea Dworkin: Men who want...

Andrea Dworkin: Men who want...

Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically...

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Andrea Dworkin: The genius of...

Andrea Dworkin: The genius of...

The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a...

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Helen Keller: I seldom think...

Helen Keller: I seldom think...

I seldom think about my limitations, and they've never made me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at...

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Helen Keller: Your success and...

Helen Keller: Your success and...

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host...

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Edith Hamilton: To be able...

Edith Hamilton: To be able...

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is being educated.

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Invention, it must...

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Invention, it must...

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of voice, but out of...

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Charlotte Forten Grimke: Let me not...

Charlotte Forten Grimke: Let me not...

Let me not forget again that I came not here for friendly sympathy or for anything else but to work, and to work hard....

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Barbara Tuchman: To a historian...

Barbara Tuchman: To a historian...

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

Source: Practising...

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Eleanor Roosevelt: Character building begins...

Eleanor Roosevelt: Character building begins...

Character building begins in our infancy, and continues until death.

Source: In...

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Corazon Aquino: All the world...

Corazon Aquino: All the world...

All the world wondered as they witnessed . . . a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest of...

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Zelda Fitzgerald: It is the...

Zelda Fitzgerald: It is the...

It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Margot Asquith: Rich men's houses...

Margot Asquith: Rich men's houses...

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to...

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Dorothy L Sayers: A human being...

Dorothy L Sayers: A human being...

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

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Mary Kay Ash: Aerodynamically the bumble...

Mary Kay Ash: Aerodynamically the bumble...

Aerodynamically the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it, so it goes on flying...

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