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Marilyn Monroe: I've always felt...

Marilyn Monroe: I've always felt...

I've always felt those articles somehow reveal more about the writers than they do about...

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Eleanor Robson Belmont: In retrospect, the...

Eleanor Robson Belmont: In retrospect, the...

In retrospect, the past seems not one existence with a continuous flow of years and events that follow each other in...

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Jinger Heath: Success doesn't necessarily...

Jinger Heath: Success doesn't necessarily...

Success doesn't necessarily make you a happy person. . . . but without the confidence and security that comes from...

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Beverly Sills: My voice had...

Beverly Sills: My voice had...

My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once...

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Carter Heyward: For god is...

Carter Heyward: For god is...

For god is nothing other than the eternally creative source of our relational power, our common strength, a god whose...

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St Teresa of Avila: Accustom yourself continually...

St Teresa of Avila: Accustom yourself continually...

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the...

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Jane Harrison: To be womanly...

Jane Harrison: To be womanly...

To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with the sex instinct; to...

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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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Maria Montessori: The first idea...

Maria Montessori: The first idea...

The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between...

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Barbara Tuchman: To be a...

Barbara Tuchman: To be a...

To be a bestseller is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is a measure of...

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Eleanor Roosevelt: I used to...

Eleanor Roosevelt: I used to...

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me understand something, it would be clear to all the other people in...

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Louisa May Alcott: People want to...

Louisa May Alcott: People want to...

People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don't sell nowadays.

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Catharine Esther Beecher: How many young...

Catharine Esther Beecher: How many young...

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity...

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Charlotte Forten Grimke: I wonder that...

Charlotte Forten Grimke: I wonder that...

I wonder that every colored person is not a misanthrope. Surely we have everything to make us hate...

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Maria Montessori: Establishing lasting peace...

Maria Montessori: Establishing lasting peace...

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of...

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Sylvia Ashton-Warner: I see the...

Sylvia Ashton-Warner: I see the...

I see the mind of a 5-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and...

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Dorothy L Sayers: While time lasts...

Dorothy L Sayers: While time lasts...

While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made...

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Svetlana Alliluyeva: He is gone,...

Svetlana Alliluyeva: He is gone,...

He is gone, but his shadow still stands over all of us. It still dictates to us and we, very often,...

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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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Grace Murray Hopper: If you do...

Grace Murray Hopper: If you do...

If you do something once, people will call it an accident. If you do it twice, they call it a coincidence. But do it a...

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