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Peace Pilgrim: One little person,...

Peace Pilgrim: One little person,...

One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make...

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Katharine Hepburn: Plain women know...

Katharine Hepburn: Plain women know...

Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.

Source: In An Uncommon...

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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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Doroth?e DeLuzy: Employment and ennui...

Doroth?e DeLuzy: Employment and ennui...

Employment and ennui are simply incompatible.

Source: In The Last Word - A Treasury...

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Abigail Adams: If particular care...

Abigail Adams: If particular care...

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold...

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Jane Harrison: Marriage, for a...

Jane Harrison: Marriage, for a...

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and...

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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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Mary Baker Eddy: Truth is immortal;...

Mary Baker Eddy: Truth is immortal;...

Truth is immortal; error is mortal.

Source: In Correct Quotes for DOS, WordStar...

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Louise Nevelson: I still want...

Louise Nevelson: I still want...

I still want to do my work. I still want to do my livingness. And I have lived. I have been fulfilled. I...

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Charleszetta Waddles: . ....

Charleszetta Waddles: . ....

. . . I believe that you cannot go any further than you can think. I certainly believe if you don't desire a thing,...

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Mary Daly: The liberation of...

Mary Daly: The liberation of...

The liberation of language is rooted in the liberation of ourselves.

Source: The...

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Joan L Curcio: Advances are made...

Joan L Curcio: Advances are made...

Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can...

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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: The human mind...

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: The human mind...

The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.

Source: In...

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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: The past which...

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: The past which...

The past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past...

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Francoise d'Aubigne de Maintenon: There is an...

Francoise d'Aubigne de Maintenon: There is an...

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the...

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Francoise d'Aubigne de Maintenon: It is with...

Francoise d'Aubigne de Maintenon: It is with...

It is with enterprises as with striking fire; we do not meet with success except with reiterated efforts, and often at...

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Martha Washington: The greater part...

Martha Washington: The greater part...

The greater part of our happiness or our misery depends on our dispositions and not on our...

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Rosalynn Carter: If you don't...

Rosalynn Carter: If you don't...

If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try -- you...

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Catharine Esther Beecher: How many young...

Catharine Esther Beecher: How many young...

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity...

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Catharine Esther Beecher: To open avenues...

Catharine Esther Beecher: To open avenues...

To open avenues to political place and power for all classes of women would cause [the] humble labors of the family...

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