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Leontyne Price: Accomplishments have no...

Leontyne Price: Accomplishments have no...

Accomplishments have no color.

Source: In I Dream a World.
-- Leontyne Price,...

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Marilyn Horne: Ninety percent of...

Marilyn Horne: Ninety percent of...

Ninety percent of what's wrong with singers today is that they don't breathe right.

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Angelina Grimke: If a law...

Angelina Grimke: If a law...

If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course...

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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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Andrea Dworkin: Men who want...

Andrea Dworkin: Men who want...

Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically...

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Andrea Dworkin: The genius of...

Andrea Dworkin: The genius of...

The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a...

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Ethel Percy Andrus: The human contribution...

Ethel Percy Andrus: The human contribution...

The human contribution is the essential ingredient.

Source: In The Last Word - A...

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Mary Church Terrell: We are the...

Mary Church Terrell: We are the...

We are the only human beings in the world with . . . 57 varieties of complexions who are classed together as a single...

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Marie Curie: I was taught...

Marie Curie: I was taught...

I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.

Source: In Words...

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Barbara Ehrenreich: Surely there must...

Barbara Ehrenreich: Surely there must...

Surely there must be some way to find a husband or, for that matter, merely an escort, without sacrificing one's...

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Anne Hutchinson: What from the...

Anne Hutchinson: What from the...

What from the Church at Boston? I know no such church, neither will I own it. Call it the whore and strumpet of...

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Elizabeth Fry: I wish the...

Elizabeth Fry: I wish the...

I wish the state of enthusiasm I am now in may last, for today I FELT there is a God. I have been devotional and my...

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Virginia Woolf: One likes people...

Virginia Woolf: One likes people...

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they...

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Josephine St Pierre Ruffin: Too long have...

Josephine St Pierre Ruffin: Too long have...

Too long have we been silent under unjust and unholy charges; we cannot expect to have them removed until we disprove...

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Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: It is justice,...

Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: It is justice,...

It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Patty Berg: It's a wonderful...

Patty Berg: It's a wonderful...

It's a wonderful day for me, I made it to 80.

Source: On her 80th birthday.
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Chris Evert Lloyd: I always looked...

Chris Evert Lloyd: I always looked...

I always looked ahead.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library,...

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Florence Griffith Joyner: When anyone tells...

Florence Griffith Joyner: When anyone tells...

When anyone tells me I can't do anything. I'm just not listening any more.

Source:...

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Elizabeth Dole: Women share with...

Elizabeth Dole: Women share with...

Women share with men the need for personal success, even the taste of power, and no longer are we willing to satisfy...

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Corazon Aquino: Reconciliation should be...

Corazon Aquino: Reconciliation should be...

Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't...

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