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Emily Post: Manners are a...

Emily Post: Manners are a...

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no...

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Isadora Duncan: I had learned...

Isadora Duncan: I had learned...

I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same...

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Florida Scott-Maxwell: No matter how...

Florida Scott-Maxwell: No matter how...

No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of...

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Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: It is justice,...

Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: It is justice,...

It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Anna Kournikova: I worked very...

Anna Kournikova: I worked very...

I worked very hard and I earned all the attention I'm getting.

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-- Anna...

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Marie Curie: One never notices...

Marie Curie: One never notices...

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done . . .

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Ella Baker: There is also...

Ella Baker: There is also...

There is also the danger in our culture that because a person is called upon to give public statements and is...

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Virginia Woolf: One likes people...

Virginia Woolf: One likes people...

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they...

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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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Kate Chopin: The years that...

Kate Chopin: The years that...

The years that are gone seem like dreams -- if one might go on sleeping and dreaming -- but to wake up and find -- oh!...

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Barbara Ehrenreich: Surely there must...

Barbara Ehrenreich: Surely there must...

Surely there must be some way to find a husband or, for that matter, merely an escort, without sacrificing one's...

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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 Blackwell: Methods and conclusions...

Elizabeth Blackwell: Methods and conclusions...

Methods and conclusions formed by half the race only, must necessarily require revision as the other half of humanity...

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Mary Steichen Calderone: I truly feel...

Mary Steichen Calderone: I truly feel...

I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the lives...

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Mary Catherine Bateson: The family is...

Mary Catherine Bateson: The family is...

The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new...

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Emma Hart Willard: The education of...

Emma Hart Willard: The education of...

The education of females has been exclusively directed to fit them for displaying to advantage the charms of youth and...

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Maria Montessori: Establishing lasting peace...

Maria Montessori: Establishing lasting peace...

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of...

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Bella Abzug: All of the...

Bella Abzug: All of the...

All of the men on my staff can type.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for...

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Hannah Arendt: It is quite...

Hannah Arendt: It is quite...

It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and...

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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: Wit consists in...

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: Wit consists in...

Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are...

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