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Ivy Baker Priest: Any woman who...

Ivy Baker Priest: Any woman who...

Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way of two personalities, like two...

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Mary Frances Berry: When it comes...

Mary Frances Berry: When it comes...

When it comes to the cause of justice, I take no prisoners and I don't believe in...

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Corazon Aquino: One must be...

Corazon Aquino: One must be...

One must be frank to be relevant.

Source: Chiding UN for lack of support in...

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Shirley Chisholm: Tremendous amounts of...

Shirley Chisholm: Tremendous amounts of...

Tremendous amounts of talent are being lost to our society just because that talent wears a...

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Shirley Chisholm: Of my two...

Shirley Chisholm: Of my two...

Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.

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Princess Anne: You, are a...

Princess Anne: You, are a...

You, are a pest, by the very nature of that camera in your hand.

Source: To a...

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St Teresa of Avila: Accustom yourself continually...

St Teresa of Avila: Accustom yourself continually...

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the...

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Mary Steichen Calderone: Our children are...

Mary Steichen Calderone: Our children are...

Our children are not going to be just our children they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the...

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Anne Sullivan: I am beginning...

Anne Sullivan: I am beginning...

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the...

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Ann Plato: [Books] may sleep...

Ann Plato: [Books] may sleep...

[Books] may sleep for a while and be neglected; but whenever the desire of information springs up in the human breast,...

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Frances Perkins: Most of man's...

Frances Perkins: Most of man's...

Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or...

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Mary Jean LeTendre: We have to...

Mary Jean LeTendre: We have to...

We have to preach what winners practice.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for...

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Maria Montessori: The observation of...

Maria Montessori: The observation of...

The observation of the way in which the children pass from the first disordered movements to those which are...

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Dorothy L Sayers: While time lasts...

Dorothy L Sayers: While time lasts...

While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made...

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Pearl Buck: Sometimes I would...

Pearl Buck: Sometimes I would...

Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a...

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Natalie Clifford Barney: Would that well-thinking...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Would that well-thinking...

Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.

Source: in...

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Natalie Clifford Barney: How many inner...

Natalie Clifford Barney: How many inner...

How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.

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Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco: It is never...

Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco: It is never...

It is never any good dwelling on goodbyes. It is not the being together it prolongs, it is the...

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Elizabeth Montagu: . . ....

Elizabeth Montagu: . . ....

. . . there is a much higher character from that of a wit or a poet or a savant, which is that of a rational sociable...

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Patricia Meyer Spacks: The clich? that...

Patricia Meyer Spacks: The clich? that...

The clich? that women, more consistently than men, turn inward for sustenance seems to mean, in practice, that women...

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