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Emily Dickinson: Assent--and you are...

Emily Dickinson: Assent--and you are...

Assent--and you are sane--,
Demur--you're straightway dangerous--,
And handled with a...

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Louise A Bogan: I cannot believe...

Louise A Bogan: I cannot believe...

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world...

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Shelagh Delaney: 'There aren't enough...

Shelagh Delaney: 'There aren't enough...

''There aren't enough secrets to go round anymore. Some spies are having to invent secrets in order to earn a...

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Emily Dickinson: Hope is the...

Emily Dickinson: Hope is the...

Hope is the thing with feathers --
That perches in the soul --
And sings the tunes without the words --
And...

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Emily Dickinson: Tis so much...

Emily Dickinson: Tis so much...

'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a...

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Sarah Bernhardt: Legend remains victorious...

Sarah Bernhardt: Legend remains victorious...

Legend remains victorious in spite of history.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Lynn Fontanne: I lied to...

Lynn Fontanne: I lied to...

I lied to everybody. I lie very well, being an actress, naturally.

Source: On...

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: The beautiful seems...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: The beautiful seems...

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

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Adelaide A Proctor: I know too...

Adelaide A Proctor: I know too...

I know too well the poison and the sting
Of things too sweet.


Source: Per Pacem...

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Barbara Bush: Bias has to...

Barbara Bush: Bias has to...

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are...

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Joanne Woodward: It Was wisely...

Joanne Woodward: It Was wisely...

It Was wisely known in New York, but never acknowledged, that Americans want to get away from amusement even more I...

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Edith Evans: When a woman...

Edith Evans: When a woman...

When a woman behaves like a man, why doesn't she behave like a nice man?

Source:...

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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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Tallulah Bankhead: I have been...

Tallulah Bankhead: I have been...

I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free...

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Laura Ingalls Wilder: Once you begin...

Laura Ingalls Wilder: Once you begin...

Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful...

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Peace Pilgrim: Do not suppress...

Peace Pilgrim: Do not suppress...

Do not suppress it-that would hurt you inside. Do not express it-this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause...

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Charleszetta Waddles: God knows no...

Charleszetta Waddles: God knows no...

God knows no distance.

Source: Mother Waddles: Black Angel of the Poor, by Lee...

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Mary Daly: The liberation of...

Mary Daly: The liberation of...

The liberation of language is rooted in the liberation of ourselves.

Source: The...

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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: The common erotic...

Andrea Dworkin: The common erotic...

The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood; this project is...

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