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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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Annie Dillard: Appealing workplaces are...

Annie Dillard: Appealing workplaces are...

Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the...

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Katherine Mansfield: The mind I...

Katherine Mansfield: The mind I...

The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown...

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Margot Asquith: There are big...

Margot Asquith: There are big...

There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult...

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Florence Scovel Shinn: You will be...

Florence Scovel Shinn: You will be...

You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by...

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Marianne Williamson: In every community,...

Marianne Williamson: In every community,...

In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the...

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Anne Wilson Schaef: A chuckle a...

Anne Wilson Schaef: A chuckle a...

A chuckle a day may not keep the doctor away, but it sure does make those times in life's waiting room a little more...

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Han Suyin: This is Malaya....

Han Suyin: This is Malaya....

This is Malaya. Everything takes a long, a very long time, in Malaya. Things get done, occasionally, but more often...

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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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Emma Hart Willard: Rocked in the...

Emma Hart Willard: Rocked in the...

Rocked in the cradle of the deep
I lay me down in peace to sleep;
Secure I rest upon the wave,
For Thou, O...

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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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Mary Jean LeTendre: The challenge for...

Mary Jean LeTendre: The challenge for...

The challenge for the 21st century is to bring together parents, the early childhood community, and schools so that...

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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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Abigail Adams: . . ....

Abigail Adams: . . ....

. . . a habit the pleasure of which increases with practice, but becomes more urksome with...

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Bernadette Devlin: I went to...

Bernadette Devlin: I went to...

I went to a very militantly Republican grammar school and, under its influence, began to revolt against the...

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Elizabeth I: I thank God...

Elizabeth I: I thank God...

I thank God I am endued with such qualities that if I were turned out of the Realm in my petticoat I were able to live...

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Dorothy Gilman: But she knew...

Dorothy Gilman: But she knew...

But she knew that she had encountered one of the more devastating kinds of loneliness in existence: that of being in...

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Naomi Weisstein: Why have they...

Naomi Weisstein: Why have they...

Why have they been telling us women lately that we have no sense of humor -- when we are always laughing? . . . and...

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Dorothy L Sayers: She always says,...

Dorothy L Sayers: She always says,...

She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run...

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