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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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Erica Jong: Where is Hollywood...

Erica Jong: Where is Hollywood...

Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by...

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E L Konigsburg: Happiness is excitement...

E L Konigsburg: Happiness is excitement...

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping...

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Anne Wilson Schaef: A chuckle a...

Anne Wilson Schaef: A chuckle a...

A chuckle a day may not keep the doctor away, but it sure does make those times in life's waiting room a little more...

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Mary Catherine Bateson: The capacity to...

Mary Catherine Bateson: The capacity to...

The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.

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Jane Harrison: Old age, believe...

Jane Harrison: Old age, believe...

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you...

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Emma Hart Willard: Rocked in the...

Emma Hart Willard: Rocked in the...

Rocked in the cradle of the deep
I lay me down in peace to sleep;
Secure I rest upon the wave,
For Thou, O...

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Charlotte Forten Grimke: Let me not...

Charlotte Forten Grimke: Let me not...

Let me not forget again that I came not here for friendly sympathy or for anything else but to work, and to work hard....

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bell hooks: Secrets find a...

bell hooks: Secrets find a...

Secrets find a way out in sleep . . . It is the place where there is no pretense.

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Maria Montessori: The first idea...

Maria Montessori: The first idea...

The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between...

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Marie Anne du Deffand: I do not...

Marie Anne du Deffand: I do not...

I do not know why Diogenes * went looking for a man: nothing could happen to him worse than finding...

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Corrie Ten Boom: The first step...

Corrie Ten Boom: The first step...

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.

Source: In Draper's...

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Fanny Crosby: When I get...

Fanny Crosby: When I get...

When I get to heaven, the first face that shall ever gladden my sight will be that of my...

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Marianne Williamson: In every community,...

Marianne Williamson: In every community,...

In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the...

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Bernadette Devlin: I went to...

Bernadette Devlin: I went to...

I went to a very militantly Republican grammar school and, under its influence, began to revolt against the...

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Christina of Sweden: I love men,...

Christina of Sweden: I love men,...

I love men, not because they are men, but because they are not women.

Source:...

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Annie Elizabeth Delany: When Negroes are...

Annie Elizabeth Delany: When Negroes are...

When Negroes are average, they fail, unless they are very, very lucky. Now, if you're average and white, honey, you...

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Adelle Davis: To say that...

Adelle Davis: To say that...

To say that obesity is caused by merely consuming too many calories is like saying that the only cause of the American...

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Adelle Davis: Nutrition . ....

Adelle Davis: Nutrition . ....

Nutrition . . . has been kicked around like a puppy that cannot take care of itself. Food faddists and crackpots have...

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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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