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Nikki Giovanni: We love because...

Nikki Giovanni: We love because...

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Source: In Ebony Magazine,
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Emily Dickinson: Tis so much...

Emily Dickinson: Tis so much...

'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a...

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Nadia Boulanger: Everything we know...

Nadia Boulanger: Everything we know...

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves,...

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Grace Hansen: I feel I'm...

Grace Hansen: I feel I'm...

I feel I'm as qualified for office as any of the other comedians who are running.

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Nellie Melba: If I'd been...

Nellie Melba: If I'd been...

If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia -- I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for...

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Catherine the Great: I may be...

Catherine the Great: I may be...

I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at...

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Elizabeth Kenny: Some minds remain...

Elizabeth Kenny: Some minds remain...

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit...

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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: At first he...

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: At first he...

At first he was very discouraging, to my astonishment then, but now I fancy he did it as a forlorn hope to check me;...

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Ruth Westheimer: Don't share your...

Ruth Westheimer: Don't share your...

Don't share your fantasies unless you're sure your partner really wants to hear them.

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Elizabeth Montagu: . . ....

Elizabeth Montagu: . . ....

. . . there is a much higher character from that of a wit or a poet or a savant, which is that of a rational sociable...

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Christa McAuliffe: I have a...

Christa McAuliffe: I have a...

I have a box of papers at home of [my own press coverage]. When I'm sixty, maybe, I'll look at my pile of papers and...

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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: Search for the...

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: Search for the...

Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

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Marianne Williamson: There is nothing...

Marianne Williamson: There is nothing...

There is nothing Madison Avenue can give us that will make us more beautiful women. We are beautiful because God...

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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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Patricia Schroeder: You measure a...

Patricia Schroeder: You measure a...

You measure a government by how few people need help.

Source: Firing Line, PBS, 13...

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Nancy Astor: Real education should...

Nancy Astor: Real education should...

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all...

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Anne Hutchinson: I feel that...

Anne Hutchinson: I feel that...

I feel that nothing important ever happens that is not revealed to me beforehand.

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Rosa Parks: Memories of our...

Rosa Parks: Memories of our...

Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.

Source:...

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Amelia Earhart: The more one...

Amelia Earhart: The more one...

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of...

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Amelia Barr: The great difference...

Amelia Barr: The great difference...

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on...

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