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Emily Dickinson: A great Hope...

Emily Dickinson: A great Hope...

A great Hope fell
You heard no noise
The Ruin was within.


Source: c.1864,...

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Barbara Bush: I think togetherness...

Barbara Bush: I think togetherness...

I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life. It's a cliche and we use it too much but I think...

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Eleanor Roosevelt: It takes as...

Eleanor Roosevelt: It takes as...

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Barbara Jordan: If you're going...

Barbara Jordan: If you're going...

If you're going to play the game [politics] properly, you'd better know every rule.

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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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Marie Anne du Deffand: Heed the still,...

Marie Anne du Deffand: Heed the still,...

Heed the still, small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly.

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Alice Paul: There will never...

Alice Paul: There will never...

There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it.

Source: In...

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Etty Hillesum: We are always...

Etty Hillesum: We are always...

We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.

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Gail Pursell Elliott: As a society,...

Gail Pursell Elliott: As a society,...

As a society, we have come to a point where people too often treat one another as objects and opportunities, rather...

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Grace Murray Hopper: If you do...

Grace Murray Hopper: If you do...

If you do something once, people will call it an accident. If you do it twice, they call it a coincidence. But do it a...

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Starhawk: Spirituality leaps where...

Starhawk: Spirituality leaps where...

Spirituality leaps where science cannot yet follow, because science must always test and measure, and much of reality...

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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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Dorothy Parker: Authors and actors...

Dorothy Parker: Authors and actors...

Authors and actors and artists and such
Never know nothing, and never know much.


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Barbara Ehrenreich: We who officially...

Barbara Ehrenreich: We who officially...

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the...

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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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Sojourner Truth: I am not...

Sojourner Truth: I am not...

I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.

Source: c. 1883, in...

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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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Dorothy Day: We have all...

Dorothy Day: We have all...

We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with...

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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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Catherine the Great: Your wits make...

Catherine the Great: Your wits make...

Your wits make others witty.

Source: Letter to Voltaire, In The Complete Works of...

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