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Billie Jean King: No one changes...

Billie Jean King: No one changes...

No one changes the world who isn't obsessed.

Source: San Francisco 'Chronicle', 8...

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Florence Griffith Joyner: I don't look...

Florence Griffith Joyner: I don't look...

I don't look at myself as being famous. I look at myself as an athlete. If the money is there, I'd be happy, but I...

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Peace Pilgrim: One little person,...

Peace Pilgrim: One little person,...

One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make...

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Margaret Sanger: Diplomats make it...

Margaret Sanger: Diplomats make it...

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.

Source: Woman and the New...

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Andrea Dworkin: I love, cherish,...

Andrea Dworkin: I love, cherish,...

I love, cherish, and respect women in my mind, in my heart, and in my soul. This love of women is the soil in which my...

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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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Mary Pettibone Poole: People who think...

Mary Pettibone Poole: People who think...

People who think money can do anything may very well be suspected of doing anything for...

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Mary Pettibone Poole: Alcohol is a...

Mary Pettibone Poole: Alcohol is a...

Alcohol is a good preservative for everything but brains.

Source: A Glass Eye at a...

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Mary Astor: The man who...

Mary Astor: The man who...

The man who goes fishing gets something more than the fish he catches.

Source: From...

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Ethel Barrymore: When life knocks...

Ethel Barrymore: When life knocks...

When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, as it will, well,...

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Zsa Zsa Gabor: A man in...

Zsa Zsa Gabor: A man in...

A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.

Source: In...

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Katharine Hepburn: I can remember...

Katharine Hepburn: I can remember...

I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the...

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Rosalind Russell: When something [an...

Rosalind Russell: When something [an...

When something [an affliction] happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat...

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Rita Rudner: Before I met...

Rita Rudner: Before I met...

Before I met my husband I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

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Sydney Biddle Barrows: I ran the...

Sydney Biddle Barrows: I ran the...

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Source: Quoted by...

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Nikki Giovanni: Art is not...

Nikki Giovanni: Art is not...

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

Source: In Words of...

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Charlotte Bronte: Give him enough...

Charlotte Bronte: Give him enough...

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

Source: Shirley, 1849.
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Emily Dickinson: A great Hope...

Emily Dickinson: A great Hope...

A great Hope fell
You heard no noise
The Ruin was within.


Source: c.1864,...

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Abigail Adams: [A]rbitrary power is...

Abigail Adams: [A]rbitrary power is...

[A]rbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken . ....

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Martha Washington: The greater part...

Martha Washington: The greater part...

The greater part of our happiness or our misery depends on our dispositions and not on our...

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