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Mary Jean LeTendre: The challenge for...

Mary Jean LeTendre: The challenge for...

The challenge for the 21st century is to bring together parents, the early childhood community, and schools so that...

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Shirley Hufstedler: If you play...

Shirley Hufstedler: If you play...

If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow any more.

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Jill Ruckelshaus: I have no...

Jill Ruckelshaus: I have no...

I have no hostility towards men. Some of my best friends are men. I married a man, and my father was a...

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Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco: It is never...

Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco: It is never...

It is never any good dwelling on goodbyes. It is not the being together it prolongs, it is the...

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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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Harriet Beecher Stowe: I no more...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: I no more...

I no more thought of style or literary excellence than the mother who rushes into the street and cries for help to...

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Fanny Crosby: I have not...

Fanny Crosby: I have not...

I have not for a moment in more than eighty-five years felt a spark of resentment against him, because I have always...

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St Teresa of Avila: Accustom yourself continually...

St Teresa of Avila: Accustom yourself continually...

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the...

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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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M F K Fisher: . . ....

M F K Fisher: . . ....

. . . word-sniffing . . . is an addiction, like glue -- or snow -- sniffing in a somewhat less destructive way,...

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Lillian Carter: Sure, I'm for...

Lillian Carter: Sure, I'm for...

Sure, I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself someday.

Source:...

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Johnnetta Betsch Cole: These young women...

Johnnetta Betsch Cole: These young women...

These young women have had four years of very special space . . . . safe space. But when they graduate, they will...

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Marjorie Rosen: Does art reflect...

Marjorie Rosen: Does art reflect...

Does art reflect life? In movies, yes. Because more than any other art form, films have been a mirror held up to...

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Abigail Adams: A little of...

Abigail Adams: A little of...

A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the...

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Eleanor Roosevelt: I used to...

Eleanor Roosevelt: I used to...

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me understand something, it would be clear to all the other people in...

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Shirley Hufstedler: Security is not...

Shirley Hufstedler: Security is not...

Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risks.

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Dianne Feinstein: Survival is nothing...

Dianne Feinstein: Survival is nothing...

Survival is nothing more than recovery.

Source: In Boston Globe, 29 May 1983.
--...

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Shirley Chisholm: Tremendous amounts of...

Shirley Chisholm: Tremendous amounts of...

Tremendous amounts of talent are being lost to our society just because that talent wears a...

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Fanny Crosby: This is my...

Fanny Crosby: This is my...

This is my story, this is my Song,
Praising my Savior, all the day long.


Source:...

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Jane Austen: One cannot be...

Jane Austen: One cannot be...

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

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