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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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Lillian Carter: If I had...

Lillian Carter: If I had...

If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as...

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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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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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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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Louisa May Alcott: People want to...

Louisa May Alcott: People want to...

People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don't sell nowadays.

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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: 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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Margaret Fuller: Beware of over-great...

Margaret Fuller: Beware of over-great...

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.

Source: Letter, 20...

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Virginia Woolf: We all indulge...

Virginia Woolf: We all indulge...

We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone...

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Josephine St Pierre Ruffin: We are justified...

Josephine St Pierre Ruffin: We are justified...

We are justified in believing that the success of this movement for equality of the sexes means more progress toward...

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Laura Ingalls Wilder: Once you begin...

Laura Ingalls Wilder: Once you begin...

Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful...

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Rosalyn Sussman Yalow: The excitement of...

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow: The excitement of...

The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not...

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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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Andrea Dworkin: The genius of...

Andrea Dworkin: The genius of...

The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a...

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Diane Sawyer: It's in the...

Diane Sawyer: It's in the...

It's in the preparation -- in those dreary pedestrian virtues they taught you in seventh grade and you didn't believe....

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Althea Gibson: Shaking hands with...

Althea Gibson: Shaking hands with...

Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus...

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Amelia Earhart: Women must pay...

Amelia Earhart: Women must pay...

Women must pay for everything. . . . They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, But, also, women get more...

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Marie Curie: Be less curious...

Marie Curie: Be less curious...

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Jean Harlow: Would you be...

Jean Harlow: Would you be...

Would you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable?

Source: In Hell's...

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