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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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Laura Ingalls Wilder: Once you begin...

Laura Ingalls Wilder: Once you begin...

Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful...

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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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Josephine St Pierre Ruffin: We are justified...

Josephine St Pierre Ruffin: We are justified...

We are justified in believing that the success of this movement for equality of the sexes means more progress toward...

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Martina Navratilova: Whoever said, It's...

Martina Navratilova: Whoever said, It's...

Whoever said, It's not whether you win or lose that counts, probably lost.

Source:...

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Amelia Earhart: The soul that...

Amelia Earhart: The soul that...

The soul that knows [courage] not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of...

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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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Martina Navratilova: I hope, when...

Martina Navratilova: I hope, when...

I hope, when I stop, people will think that somehow I mattered.

Source: In...

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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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Starhawk: Any ritual is...

Starhawk: Any ritual is...

Any ritual is an opportunity for transformation.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Eleonora Duse: When we grow...

Eleonora Duse: When we grow...

When we grow old, there can only be one regret -- not to have given enough of ourselves.

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Aphra Behn: All I ask,...

Aphra Behn: All I ask,...

All I ask, is the privilege for my masculine part the poet in me. . . . If I must not, because of my sex, have this...

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Brigitte Bardot: Every age can...

Brigitte Bardot: Every age can...

Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

Source: In The Wit &...

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Joan Baez: The easiest kind...

Joan Baez: The easiest kind...

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with...

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Alice Childress: Some feminists feel...

Alice Childress: Some feminists feel...

Some feminists feel that a woman should never be wrong. We have a right to be wrong.

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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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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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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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Nelly Sachs: You, the inexperienced,...

Nelly Sachs: You, the inexperienced,...

You, the inexperienced, who learn nothing in the nights.
Many angels are given you
But you do not see...

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Sarah Knowles Bolton: Forget the past...

Sarah Knowles Bolton: Forget the past...

Forget the past and live in the present hour.
Now is the time to work, the time to fill
The soul with noblest...

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