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Mae West: If I asked...

Mae West: If I asked...

If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.

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Shelagh Delaney: The only consolation...

Shelagh Delaney: The only consolation...

The only consolation I can find in your immediate presence is your ultimate absence.

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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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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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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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Jessie Redmon Fauset: She thought then...

Jessie Redmon Fauset: She thought then...

She thought then of black people . . . . And she saw them as a people powerfully, almost overwhelmingly endowed with...

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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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Donna Reed: Bread that this...

Donna Reed: Bread that this...

Bread that this house may never know hunger, salt that life may always have flavor.

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Babe Didrikson Zaharias: It's not just...

Babe Didrikson Zaharias: It's not just...

It's not just enough to swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and let 'er...

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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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Rachel Carson: Under the philosophy...

Rachel Carson: Under the philosophy...

Under the philosophy that now seems to guide our destinies, nothing must get in the way of the man with the spray...

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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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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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Margaret Fuller: Beware of over-great...

Margaret Fuller: Beware of over-great...

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.

Source: Letter, 20...

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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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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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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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Hillary Rodham Clinton: Women are always...

Hillary Rodham Clinton: Women are always...

Women are always being tested . . . but ultimately, each of us has to define who we are individually and then do the...

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