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Katherine Dunham: If you dance,...

Katherine Dunham: If you dance,...

If you dance, you dance because you have to. Every dancer hurts, you know.

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Shelagh Delaney: Why don't you...

Shelagh Delaney: Why don't you...

Why don't you learn from my mistakes? It takes half your life to learn from your own.

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Frances Watkins Harper: The true aim...

Frances Watkins Harper: The true aim...

The true aim of female education should be, not a development of one or two, but all the faculties of the human soul,...

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Anne Bradstreet: A prosperous state...

Anne Bradstreet: A prosperous state...

A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.

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Ellen Terry: Imagination, industry, and...

Ellen Terry: Imagination, industry, and...

Imagination, industry, and intelligence --the three I's --are all indispensable to the actress, but of these three the...

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Simone Weil: Who were the...

Simone Weil: Who were the...

Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead...

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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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Peace Pilgrim: Keep your feet...

Peace Pilgrim: Keep your feet...

Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.

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Aimee Semple Mcpherson: O Hope! dazzling,...

Aimee Semple Mcpherson: O Hope! dazzling,...

O Hope! dazzling, radiant Hope! -- What a change thou bringest to the hopeless; brightening the darkened paths, and...

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Elizabeth Fry: Punishment is not...

Elizabeth Fry: Punishment is not...

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

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Angelina Grimke: If a law...

Angelina Grimke: If a law...

If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course...

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Angelina Grimke: I trust the...

Angelina Grimke: I trust the...

I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor [sic] to children will be deemed the most honorable...

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Dolores Huerta: Don't be a...

Dolores Huerta: Don't be a...

Don't be a marshmallow. Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. Stop being vegetables. Work for...

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Mary Astell: There is not...

Mary Astell: There is not...

There is not anything so excellent, but some will carp at it. . .

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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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Lucretia Mott: Let [woman] receive...

Lucretia Mott: Let [woman] receive...

Let [woman] receive encouragement for the proper cultivation of all her powers, so that she may enter profitably into...

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Althea Gibson: In the field...

Althea Gibson: In the field...

In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you...

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Wilma Rudolph: When I was...

Wilma Rudolph: When I was...

When I was going through my transition of being famous, I tried to ask God why was I here? what was my purpose?...

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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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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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