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Nancy Astor: The main dangers...

Nancy Astor: The main dangers...

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything -- or nothing.

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Frances Perkins: But with the...

Frances Perkins: But with the...

But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan...

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Mary Ritter Beard: It is grievous...

Mary Ritter Beard: It is grievous...

It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be...

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Georgia O'Keeffe: Before I put...

Georgia O'Keeffe: Before I put...

Before I put a brush to canvas, I question, Is this mine? . . . Is it influenced by some idea which I have acquired...

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Nellie Melba: If I'd been...

Nellie Melba: If I'd been...

If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia -- I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for...

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Ingrid Bergman: Old age is...

Ingrid Bergman: Old age is...

Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless...

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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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Katharine Graham: To love what...

Katharine Graham: To love what...

To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?

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Wilma Pearl Mankiller: She likened her...

Wilma Pearl Mankiller: She likened her...

She likened her job to running a small country, a medium corporation, and being a social...

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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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Sarah Bernhardt: He who is...

Sarah Bernhardt: He who is...

He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will...

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Hazel Scott: I've always known...

Hazel Scott: I've always known...

I've always known I was gifted, which is not the easiest thing in the world for a person to know, because you're not...

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Marilyn Monroe: A career is...

Marilyn Monroe: A career is...

A career is born in public -- talent in privacy.

Source: Marilyn: The Woman Who...

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Didi Conn: It doesn't matter...

Didi Conn: It doesn't matter...

It doesn't matter how your child comes to you. I've never felt such joy and such love. It's the most beautiful...

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Eileen Caddy: A human being...

Eileen Caddy: A human being...

A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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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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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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Sonia Johnson: I am a...

Sonia Johnson: I am a...

I am a warrior in the time of women warriors; the longing for justice is the sword I carry,...

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Hannah Whitall Smith: Decisions of our...

Hannah Whitall Smith: Decisions of our...

Decisions of our will are often directly opposed to the decisions of our emotions. If we are in the habit of...

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Hannah Whitall Smith: The true secret...

Hannah Whitall Smith: The true secret...

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken...

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