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Hannah Arendt: Action without a...

Hannah Arendt: Action without a...

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Source: The Human...

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Meridel Le Sueur: Each generation must...

Meridel Le Sueur: Each generation must...

Each generation must go further than the last or what's the use in it?

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Grace Murray Hopper: From then on,...

Grace Murray Hopper: From then on,...

From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.

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Grace Murray Hopper: At any given...

Grace Murray Hopper: At any given...

At any given moment, there is always a line representing what your boss will believe. If you step over it, you will...

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Abigail Adams: A little of...

Abigail Adams: A little of...

A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the...

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Abigail Adams: Do not put...

Abigail Adams: Do not put...

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could. [We...

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Eleanor Roosevelt: I used to...

Eleanor Roosevelt: I used to...

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me understand something, it would be clear to all the other people in...

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Eleanor Roosevelt: It is not...

Eleanor Roosevelt: It is not...

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

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Corazon Aquino: They came out...

Corazon Aquino: They came out...

They came out in the millions to show their dogged support for the woman the dictatorship claimed it had defeated in...

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Ruth Benedict: I gambled on...

Ruth Benedict: I gambled on...

I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.

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Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco: It is sometimes...

Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco: It is sometimes...

It is sometimes the man who opens the door who is the last to enter the room.

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Jane Harrison: To be womanly...

Jane Harrison: To be womanly...

To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with the sex instinct; to...

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Freda Adler: Major social movements....

Freda Adler: Major social movements....

Major social movements. . . eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have...

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Elizabeth Kenny: Some minds remain...

Elizabeth Kenny: Some minds remain...

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit...

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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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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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Joan L Curcio: Jump into the...

Joan L Curcio: Jump into the...

Jump into the middle of things,
get your hands dirty,
fall flat on your face,
and then reach for the...

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Emma Hart Willard: He is not...

Emma Hart Willard: He is not...

He is not necessarily the best teacher who performs the most labour; makes his pupils work the hardest, and bustle the...

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Nannie Burroughs: Don't wait for...

Nannie Burroughs: Don't wait for...

Don't wait for deliverers.... I like that quotation, Moses, my servant, is dead. Therefore, arise and go over Jordan....

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Catharine Esther Beecher: How many young...

Catharine Esther Beecher: How many young...

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity...

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