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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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Corazon Aquino: One must be...

Corazon Aquino: One must be...

One must be frank to be relevant.

Source: Chiding UN for lack of support in...

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Corazon Aquino: Reconciliation should be...

Corazon Aquino: Reconciliation should be...

Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't...

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Anne Sullivan: I am beginning...

Anne Sullivan: I am beginning...

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the...

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bell hooks: . . ....

bell hooks: . . ....

. . . no Black woman can become an intellectual without decolonizing her mind.

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Frances Perkins: Most of man's...

Frances Perkins: Most of man's...

Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or...

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Mary Jean LeTendre: We have to...

Mary Jean LeTendre: We have to...

We have to preach what winners practice.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for...

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Elizabeth Gould Davis: The fact is...

Elizabeth Gould Davis: The fact is...

The fact is that men need women more than women need men; and so, aware of this fact, man has sought to keep woman...

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Gail Pursell Elliott: As a society,...

Gail Pursell Elliott: As a society,...

As a society, we have come to a point where people too often treat one another as objects and opportunities, rather...

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Fanny Crosby: It may seem...

Fanny Crosby: It may seem...

It may seem a little old-fashioned, always to begin one's work with prayer, but I never undertake a hymn without first...

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Charlotte Bronte: Give him enough...

Charlotte Bronte: Give him enough...

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

Source: Shirley, 1849.
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Shelagh Delaney: The only consolation...

Shelagh Delaney: The only consolation...

The only consolation I can find in your immediate presence is your ultimate absence.

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Eliza Cook: Why should we...

Eliza Cook: Why should we...

Why should we strive, with cynic frown,
To knock their fairy castles down?


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Emily Dickinson: A little madness...

Emily Dickinson: A little madness...

A little madness in the Spring
Is wholesome even for the King.


Source: 1875;...

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Ethel Barrymore: When life knocks...

Ethel Barrymore: When life knocks...

When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, as it will, well,...

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Abigail Adams: Wisdom and penetration...

Abigail Adams: Wisdom and penetration...

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call...

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Joyce A Myers: A #2 pencil...

Joyce A Myers: A #2 pencil...

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Nellie Melba: Music is not...

Nellie Melba: Music is not...

Music is not written in red, white and blue. It is written in the heart's blood of the...

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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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Nelly Sachs: O the chimneys...

Nelly Sachs: O the chimneys...

O the chimneys
On the ingeniously devised habitations of death
When Israel's body drifted as smoke
Through...

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