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Barbara De Angelis: The greatest gift...

Barbara De Angelis: The greatest gift...

The greatest gift you and your partner can give your children is the example of an intimate, healthy, and loving...

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Naomi Weisstein: It's as if...

Naomi Weisstein: It's as if...

It's as if we women are in a totally rigged race. A lot of men are driving souped-up low slung racing cars, and we're...

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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?

Source:...

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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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bell hooks: Secrets find a...

bell hooks: Secrets find a...

Secrets find a way out in sleep . . . It is the place where there is no pretense.

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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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Maria Montessori: If help and...

Maria Montessori: If help and...

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of...

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Erica Jong: It is for...

Erica Jong: It is for...

It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I...

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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: In youth we...

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: In youth we...

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Source: Aphorisms, 1905.
-- Marie von...

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Margaret Thatcher: Why do you...

Margaret Thatcher: Why do you...

Why do you climb philosophical hills? Because they are worth climbing . . . There are no hills to go down unless you...

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Ann Richards: I have very...

Ann Richards: I have very...

I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look...

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Elizabeth II: To what greater...

Elizabeth II: To what greater...

To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house,...

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Nancy Astor: Real education should...

Nancy Astor: Real education should...

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all...

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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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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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Amelia Earhart: I want to...

Amelia Earhart: I want to...

I want to do it because I want to do it.

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

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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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Sarah Bernhardt: I have, thanks...

Sarah Bernhardt: I have, thanks...

I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in...

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Sarah Bernhardt: Legend remains victorious...

Sarah Bernhardt: Legend remains victorious...

Legend remains victorious in spite of history.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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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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