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Emily Dickinson: A great Hope...

Emily Dickinson: A great Hope...

A great Hope fell
You heard no noise
The Ruin was within.


Source: c.1864,...

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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: No star is...

Adelaide A Proctor: No star is...

No star is ever lost we once have seen,
We always may be what we might have been.


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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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Greta Garbo: Is there anything...

Greta Garbo: Is there anything...

Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within...

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Rosalind Russell: When something [an...

Rosalind Russell: When something [an...

When something [an affliction] happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat...

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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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Anne Hutchinson: She was a...

Anne Hutchinson: She was a...

She was a woman of haughty and fierce carriage, a nimble wit and active spirit, a very voluble tongue, more bold than...

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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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Sonia Johnson: Women cannot serve...

Sonia Johnson: Women cannot serve...

Women cannot serve two masters at once who are urgently beaming antithetical orders.... Either we believe in...

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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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Lillian Carter: If I had...

Lillian Carter: If I had...

If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as...

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Ruth Westheimer: Talking from morning...

Ruth Westheimer: Talking from morning...

Talking from morning to night about sex has helped my skiing, because I talk about movement, about looking good, about...

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Mary Lyon: Let us forever...

Mary Lyon: Let us forever...

Let us forever forget that every station in life is necessarily that each deserves our respect; that not the station...

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Charlotte Forten Grimke: Let me not...

Charlotte Forten Grimke: Let me not...

Let me not forget again that I came not here for friendly sympathy or for anything else but to work, and to work hard....

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Barbara Tuchman: Books are the...

Barbara Tuchman: Books are the...

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought...

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Dorothy L Sayers: A human being...

Dorothy L Sayers: A human being...

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.

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Etty Hillesum: I do believe...

Etty Hillesum: I do believe...

I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one's...

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Hannah Arendt: Economic growth may...

Hannah Arendt: Economic growth may...

Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into...

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Naomi Weisstein: When we hear...

Naomi Weisstein: When we hear...

When we hear jokes against women, and we are asked why we don't laugh at them, the answer is easy, simple, and short....

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