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Chris Evert Lloyd: If you can...

Chris Evert Lloyd: If you can...

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it...

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Peace Pilgrim: I don't eat...

Peace Pilgrim: I don't eat...

I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Peace Pilgrim: Most of us...

Peace Pilgrim: Most of us...

Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless,...

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Elizabeth Fry: Does Capital punishment...

Elizabeth Fry: Does Capital punishment...

Does Capital punishment tend to the security of the people? By no means. It hardens the hearts of men, and makes the...

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Antoinette Brown Blackwell: The sexes in...

Antoinette Brown Blackwell: The sexes in...

The sexes in each species of being . . . are always true equivalents -- equals but not...

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Florence Nightingale: I think one's...

Florence Nightingale: I think one's...

I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring...

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Andrea Dworkin: Women's fashion is...

Andrea Dworkin: Women's fashion is...

Women's fashion is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women.

Source:...

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Doris Lessing: In university they...

Doris Lessing: In university they...

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate...

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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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Phyllis McGinley: The knowingness of...

Phyllis McGinley: The knowingness of...

The knowingness of little girls
Is hidden underneath their curls.


Source: What...

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Marie Curie: I am one...

Marie Curie: I am one...

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new...

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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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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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Harriet Tubman: I link dar's...

Harriet Tubman: I link dar's...

I link dar's many a slaveholder'll git to Heaven. Dey don't know no better. Dey acts up to de light dey...

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Emma Goldman: When we can't...

Emma Goldman: When we can't...

When we can't dream any longer, we die.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for...

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Charlotte Bunch: If you think...

Charlotte Bunch: If you think...

If you think that you are where you are just because you worked hard, it is easy to become self-righteous and make...

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Sylvia Pankhurst: The emancipation of...

Sylvia Pankhurst: The emancipation of...

The emancipation of today displays itself mainly in cigarettes and shorts. . . painted lips and nails, and the return...

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Amelia Earhart: Women must pay...

Amelia Earhart: Women must pay...

Women must pay for everything. . . . They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, But, also, women get more...

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Eleanor Roosevelt: We must be...

Eleanor Roosevelt: We must be...

We must be willing to learn the lesson that cooperation may imply compromise, but if it brings a world advance it is a...

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Ivy Baker Priest: My father had...

Ivy Baker Priest: My father had...

My father had always said there are four things a child needs: plenty of love, nourishing food, regular sleep, and...

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