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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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Sydney Biddle Barrows: I ran the...

Sydney Biddle Barrows: I ran the...

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Source: Quoted by...

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Isadora Duncan: The first essential...

Isadora Duncan: The first essential...

The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the...

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Katherine Dunham: Go within every...

Katherine Dunham: Go within every...

Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle...

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Leontyne Price: You should always...

Leontyne Price: You should always...

You should always know when you're shifting gears in life. You should leave your era; it should never leave...

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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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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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Louise A Bogan: The intellectual is...

Louise A Bogan: The intellectual is...

The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in...

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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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Aphra Behn: All I ask,...

Aphra Behn: All I ask,...

All I ask, is the privilege for my masculine part the poet in me. . . . If I must not, because of my sex, have this...

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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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Simone Weil: Who were the...

Simone Weil: Who were the...

Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead...

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Grace Speare: Think and feel...

Grace Speare: Think and feel...

Think and feel yourself there! To achieve any aim in life, you need to project the end-result. Think of the elation,...

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Anne Hutchinson: She was a...

Anne Hutchinson: She was a...

She was a woman of haughty and fierce carriage, a nimble wit and active spirit, a very voluble tongue, more bold than...

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Peace Pilgrim: I don't eat...

Peace Pilgrim: I don't eat...

I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Peace Pilgrim: Humanity has only...

Peace Pilgrim: Humanity has only...

Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential.

Source: In The...

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Peace Pilgrim: Most of us...

Peace Pilgrim: Most of us...

Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless,...

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Aimee Semple Mcpherson: O Hope! dazzling,...

Aimee Semple Mcpherson: O Hope! dazzling,...

O Hope! dazzling, radiant Hope! -- What a change thou bringest to the hopeless; brightening the darkened paths, and...

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Starhawk: Any ritual is...

Starhawk: Any ritual is...

Any ritual is an opportunity for transformation.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Barbara Deming: I think the...

Barbara Deming: I think the...

I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision. . . is one that abandons the concept of naming...

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