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Peace Pilgrim: I've met a...

Peace Pilgrim: I've met a...

I've met a few people who had to change their jobs in order to change their lives, but I've met many more people who...

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Elizabeth Fry: I hope, if...

Elizabeth Fry: I hope, if...

I hope, if you should live to grow up, you will endeavour to be very useful and not spend all your time in pleasing...

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Coretta Scott King: The more visible...

Coretta Scott King: The more visible...

The more visible signs of protest are gone, but I think there is a realization that the tactics of the late sixties...

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Barbara Deming: Nonviolent actions does...

Barbara Deming: Nonviolent actions does...

Nonviolent actions does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their...

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Margaret Oliphant: [E]mbarrassment and perplexity...

Margaret Oliphant: [E]mbarrassment and perplexity...

[E]mbarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven...

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Dorothy Parker: Every love is...

Dorothy Parker: Every love is...

Every love is the love before
In a duller dress.


Source: Death and Taxes.
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Sylvia Pankhurst: A wondrous city...

Sylvia Pankhurst: A wondrous city...

A wondrous city of fairest carving, reflected in gleaming waters swirled to new patterning by every passing...

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Anna Kournikova: There are a...

Anna Kournikova: There are a...

There are a lot of pretty girls. I am a tennis player first of all, that is why I am here, and if wasn't producing...

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Billie Jean King: I think self-awareness...

Billie Jean King: I think self-awareness...

I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.

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Peace Pilgrim: I don't eat...

Peace Pilgrim: I don't eat...

I don't eat junk foods and I don't think junk thoughts.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Betty Friedan: The feminine mystique...

Betty Friedan: The feminine mystique...

The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.

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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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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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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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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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Fanny Crosby: It may seem...

Fanny Crosby: It may seem...

It may seem a little old-fashioned, always to begin one's work with prayer, but I never undertake a hymn without first...

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Florence Scovel Shinn: You will be...

Florence Scovel Shinn: You will be...

You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by...

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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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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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Hannah Arendt: Action without a...

Hannah Arendt: Action without a...

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Source: The Human...

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