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Sylvia Porter: The average family...

Sylvia Porter: The average family...

The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the...

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Anna Pavlova: Although one may...

Anna Pavlova: Although one may...

Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted...

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Marilyn Horne: I must absorb...

Marilyn Horne: I must absorb...

You have to know exactly what you want out of your career. If you want to be a star, you don't bother with other...

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Catherine the Great: In my position...

Catherine the Great: In my position...

In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read . ....

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Wilma Pearl Mankiller: I want to...

Wilma Pearl Mankiller: I want to...

I want to be remembered as the person who helped us restore faith in ourselves.

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Frances Watkins Harper: The true aim...

Frances Watkins Harper: The true aim...

The true aim of female education should be, not a development of one or two, but all the faculties of the human soul,...

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Emily Dickinson: Because I could...

Emily Dickinson: Because I could...

Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And...

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Sarah Bernhardt: The truth, the...

Sarah Bernhardt: The truth, the...

The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily...

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Louise Nevelson: A whisper can...

Louise Nevelson: A whisper can...

A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain.

Source:...

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Louise Nevelson: I still want...

Louise Nevelson: I still want...

I still want to do my work. I still want to do my livingness. And I have lived. I have been fulfilled. I...

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Lotte Lehmann: The music is...

Lotte Lehmann: The music is...

The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world.

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Alice Childress: I'm independent as...

Alice Childress: I'm independent as...

I'm independent as a hog on ice and a hog on ice is dead, cold, well-preserved and don't need a mother'grabbin,...

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Jessie Redmon Fauset: She thought then...

Jessie Redmon Fauset: She thought then...

She thought then of black people . . . . And she saw them as a people powerfully, almost overwhelmingly endowed with...

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Sonia Johnson: In our patriarchal...

Sonia Johnson: In our patriarchal...

In our patriarchal world, we are al1 taught -- whether we like to think we are or not -- that God, being male, values...

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Emma Goldman: No one has...

Emma Goldman: No one has...

No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The...

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Diane Sawyer: People tend to...

Diane Sawyer: People tend to...

People tend to vote the present tense -- not the subjective.

Source: On CBS-TV, 8...

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Chris Evert Lloyd: I always looked...

Chris Evert Lloyd: I always looked...

I always looked ahead.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library,...

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Han Suyin: This is Malaya....

Han Suyin: This is Malaya....

This is Malaya. Everything takes a long, a very long time, in Malaya. Things get done, occasionally, but more often...

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Catharine Esther Beecher: To open avenues...

Catharine Esther Beecher: To open avenues...

To open avenues to political place and power for all classes of women would cause [the] humble labors of the family...

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Sylvia Ashton-Warner: What can be...

Sylvia Ashton-Warner: What can be...

What can be heavier than wealth than freedom?

Source: In The Last Word - A Treasury...

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