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Barbara Deming: Vengeance is not...

Barbara Deming: Vengeance is not...

Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most [people's] minds the thought of victory and the...

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Lucy Stone: I know not...

Lucy Stone: I know not...

I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not...

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Billie Jean King: I think self-awareness...

Billie Jean King: I think self-awareness...

I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.

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Billie Jean King: The trouble with...

Billie Jean King: The trouble with...

The trouble with being number one in the world - in anything- is that it takes a certain mentality to attain that...

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Anne Frank: And finally I...

Anne Frank: And finally I...

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on...

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Ada Louise Huxtable: Every creative act...

Ada Louise Huxtable: Every creative act...

Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There is no such thing,...

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M F K Fisher: There are many...

M F K Fisher: There are many...

There are many of us who cannot but feel dismal about the future of various cultures. Often it is hard not to agree...

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M F K Fisher: Wine and cheese...

M F K Fisher: Wine and cheese...

Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures ....

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Elizabeth Blackwell: Methods and conclusions...

Elizabeth Blackwell: Methods and conclusions...

Methods and conclusions formed by half the race only, must necessarily require revision as the other half of humanity...

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Beatrice Hinkle: . . ....

Beatrice Hinkle: . . ....

. . . woman is a being dominated by the creative urge and . . . no understanding of her as an individual can be gained...

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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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Anna Julia Cooper: Teach [our girls]...

Anna Julia Cooper: Teach [our girls]...

Teach [our girls] that there is a race with special needs which they and only they can help; that the world needs and...

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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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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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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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Marianne Williamson: There is nothing...

Marianne Williamson: There is nothing...

There is nothing Madison Avenue can give us that will make us more beautiful women. We are beautiful because God...

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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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Corazon Aquino: The media's power...

Corazon Aquino: The media's power...

The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light...

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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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