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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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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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Emily Blackwell: For what is...

Emily Blackwell: For what is...

For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all...

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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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Mary Jean LeTendre: We have to...

Mary Jean LeTendre: We have to...

We have to preach what winners practice.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for...

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Claudette Colbert: I bet you...

Claudette Colbert: I bet you...

I bet you think an egg is something you casually order for breakfast when you can't think of anything else. Well, so...

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Hazel Scott: I've always known...

Hazel Scott: I've always known...

I've always known I was gifted, which is not the easiest thing in the world for a person to know, because you're not...

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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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Charlotte Perkins Gilman: To swallow and...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman: To swallow and...

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human...

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Nadia Boulanger: Everything we know...

Nadia Boulanger: Everything we know...

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves,...

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Marilyn Horne: You have to...

Marilyn Horne: You have to...

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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Jeane Kirkpatrick: We have war...

Jeane Kirkpatrick: We have war...

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants...

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Men get opinions...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Men get opinions...

Men get opinions as boys learn to spell,
By reiteration chiefly.


Source: Aurora...

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: The beautiful seems...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: The beautiful seems...

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

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Mae West: It's hard to...

Mae West: It's hard to...

It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Mae...

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Catherine the Great: You philosophers are...

Catherine the Great: You philosophers are...

You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the...

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Barbara Bush: The winner of...

Barbara Bush: The winner of...

The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal...

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Georgia O'Keeffe: Before I put...

Georgia O'Keeffe: Before I put...

Before I put a brush to canvas, I question, Is this mine? . . . Is it influenced by some idea which I have acquired...

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Louise Nevelson: What we call...

Louise Nevelson: What we call...

What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more...

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Sydney Biddle Barrows: The more you...

Sydney Biddle Barrows: The more you...

The more you act like a lady, the more he'll act like a gentleman.

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