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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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Barbra Streisand: Why does a...

Barbra Streisand: Why does a...

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she...

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Nina Simone: How do you...

Nina Simone: How do you...

How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and...

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Lady Bird Johnson: Children are likely...

Lady Bird Johnson: Children are likely...

Children are likely to live up to what you believe in them.

Source: In Words of...

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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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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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Bernadette Devlin: I went to...

Bernadette Devlin: I went to...

I went to a very militantly Republican grammar school and, under its influence, began to revolt against the...

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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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Barbara De Angelis: No one is...

Barbara De Angelis: No one is...

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or...

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Barbara De Angelis: The greatest gift...

Barbara De Angelis: The greatest gift...

The greatest gift you and your partner can give your children is the example of an intimate, healthy, and loving...

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Barbara De Angelis: No matter what...

Barbara De Angelis: No matter what...

No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique...

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Betty Smith: The difference between...

Betty Smith: The difference between...

The difference between rich and poor is that the poor do everything with their own hands and the rich hire hands to do...

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Clara Barton: It is wise...

Clara Barton: It is wise...

It is wise statesmanship which suggests that in time of peace we must prepare for war, and it is no less a wise...

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Mary Catherine Bateson: The family is...

Mary Catherine Bateson: The family is...

The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new...

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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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bell hooks: Usually, when people...

bell hooks: Usually, when people...

Usually, when people talk about the strength of black women . . . . they ignore the reality that to be strong in the...

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Anna Julia Cooper: I constantly felt...

Anna Julia Cooper: I constantly felt...

I constantly felt (as I suppose many an ambitious girl has felt) a thumping from within unanswered by any beckoning...

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Corrie Ten Boom: The first step...

Corrie Ten Boom: The first step...

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.

Source: In Draper's...

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