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Edith Hamilton: To be able...

Edith Hamilton: To be able...

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is being educated.

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Mary McLeod Bethune: The true worth...

Mary McLeod Bethune: The true worth...

The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.

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Tammy Faye Bakker: There's times when...

Tammy Faye Bakker: There's times when...

There's times when I just have to quit thinking . . . and the only way I can quit thinking is by...

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Fanny Crosby: This is my...

Fanny Crosby: This is my...

This is my story, this is my Song,
Praising my Savior, all the day long.


Source:...

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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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Emily James Putnam: But the typical...

Emily James Putnam: But the typical...

But the typical lady everywhere tends to the feudal habit of mind.

Source:...

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Emily James Putnam: Until changing economic...

Emily James Putnam: Until changing economic...

Until changing economic conditions made the thing actually happen, struggling early society would hardly have guessed...

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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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Catharine Esther Beecher: To open avenues...

Catharine Esther Beecher: To open avenues...

To open avenues to political place and power for all classes of women would cause [the] humble labors of the family...

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Maria Montessori: And so we...

Maria Montessori: And so we...

And so we discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which...

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Patricia Schroeder: When it comes...

Patricia Schroeder: When it comes...

When it comes to college education, American families are paying more and getting less.

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Patricia Schroeder: You measure a...

Patricia Schroeder: You measure a...

You measure a government by how few people need help.

Source: Firing Line, PBS, 13...

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Dianne Feinstein: Women have begun...

Dianne Feinstein: Women have begun...

Women have begun to see that if I go through that doorway, I take everybody through it.

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Barbara Mikulski: I think leadership...

Barbara Mikulski: I think leadership...

I think leadership is creating a state of mind in others.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Queen Mother Elizabeth: The children will...

Queen Mother Elizabeth: The children will...

The children will not leave unless I do. I shall not leave unless their father does, and the King will not leave the...

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Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: The beginning is...

Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: The beginning is...

The beginning is always today.

Source: From Journey in Word, ed. Cyndi Craven; an...

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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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Marie Curie: I was taught...

Marie Curie: I was taught...

I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.

Source: In Words...

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Laura Ingalls Wilder: Once you begin...

Laura Ingalls Wilder: Once you begin...

Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful...

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Simone Weil: The work of...

Simone Weil: The work of...

The work of art which I do not make, none other will ever make it.

Source: The...

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