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Shelagh Delaney: 'There aren't enough...

Shelagh Delaney: 'There aren't enough...

''There aren't enough secrets to go round anymore. Some spies are having to invent secrets in order to earn a...

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Emily Dickinson: Tis so much...

Emily Dickinson: Tis so much...

'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a...

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Emily Dickinson: Assent--and you are...

Emily Dickinson: Assent--and you are...

Assent--and you are sane--,
Demur--you're straightway dangerous--,
And handled with a...

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Alice Duer Miller: And now too...

Alice Duer Miller: And now too...

And now too late, we see these things are one:
The art is sacrifice and self-control
And who loves beauty must...

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Catherine the Great: I am one...

Catherine the Great: I am one...

I am one of the people who love the why of things.

Source: Letter, 20 Jan...

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Catherine the Great: I may be...

Catherine the Great: I may be...

I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at...

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Jinger Heath: Look for opportunity....

Jinger Heath: Look for opportunity....

Look for opportunity. You can't wait for it to knock on the door. . . . you might not be...

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Anita Roddick: I am still...

Anita Roddick: I am still...

I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they...

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Sydney Biddle Barrows: The more you...

Sydney Biddle Barrows: The more you...

The more you act like a lady, the more he'll act like a gentleman.

Source:...

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Mae West: Virtue has its...

Mae West: Virtue has its...

Virtue has its own reward, but no box office.

Source: In An Uncommon Scold, by Abby...

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E L Konigsburg: Happiness is excitement...

E L Konigsburg: Happiness is excitement...

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping...

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Etty Hillesum: We are always...

Etty Hillesum: We are always...

We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.

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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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Patricia Meyer Spacks: The vanity of...

Patricia Meyer Spacks: The vanity of...

The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior...

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Christa McAuliffe: I touch the...

Christa McAuliffe: I touch the...

I touch the future. I teach.

Source: Speech, Aug 1985; in Time, 10 Feb 1986.
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Barbara De Angelis: Difficult times always...

Barbara De Angelis: Difficult times always...

Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.

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M F K Fisher: . . ....

M F K Fisher: . . ....

. . . word-sniffing . . . is an addiction, like glue -- or snow -- sniffing in a somewhat less destructive way,...

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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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Emma Hart Willard: Rocked in the...

Emma Hart Willard: Rocked in the...

Rocked in the cradle of the deep
I lay me down in peace to sleep;
Secure I rest upon the wave,
For Thou, O...

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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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