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Shirley Chisholm: Of my two...

Shirley Chisholm: Of my two...

Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.

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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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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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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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Marita Bonner: You wonder and...

Marita Bonner: You wonder and...

You wonder and you wonder until you wander out into Infinity, where - if it is to be found anywhere - Truth really...

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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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Natalie Clifford Barney: Novels are longer...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Novels are longer...

Novels are longer than life.

Source: In Adam, no. 299, On Writing and Writers,...

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Natalie Clifford Barney: Would that well-thinking...

Natalie Clifford Barney: Would that well-thinking...

Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.

Source: in...

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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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Eleanor Roosevelt: We must be...

Eleanor Roosevelt: We must be...

We must be willing to learn the lesson that cooperation may imply compromise, but if it brings a world advance it is a...

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Eleanor Roosevelt: Life was meant...

Eleanor Roosevelt: Life was meant...

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on...

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Adelle Davis: To say that...

Adelle Davis: To say that...

To say that obesity is caused by merely consuming too many calories is like saying that the only cause of the American...

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Jane Harrison: Old age, believe...

Jane Harrison: Old age, believe...

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you...

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Charlotte Forten Grimke: May those whose...

Charlotte Forten Grimke: May those whose...

May those whose holy task it is,/To guide impulsive youth,
Fail not to cherish in their souls
A reverence for...

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Anna Julia Cooper: Teach [our girls]...

Anna Julia Cooper: Teach [our girls]...

Teach [our girls] that there is a race with special needs which they and only they can help; that the world needs and...

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Maria Montessori: We teachers can...

Maria Montessori: We teachers can...

We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.

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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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Elizabeth Montagu: . . ....

Elizabeth Montagu: . . ....

. . . there is a much higher character from that of a wit or a poet or a savant, which is that of a rational sociable...

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Alice Paul: There will never...

Alice Paul: There will never...

There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it.

Source: In...

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Edith Hamilton: Theories that go...

Edith Hamilton: Theories that go...

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.

Source: The...

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