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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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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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Annie Elizabeth Delany: When Negroes are...

Annie Elizabeth Delany: When Negroes are...

When Negroes are average, they fail, unless they are very, very lucky. Now, if you're average and white, honey, you...

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Mary Steichen Calderone: I truly feel...

Mary Steichen Calderone: I truly feel...

I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the lives...

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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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Ruth Westheimer: Don't share your...

Ruth Westheimer: Don't share your...

Don't share your fantasies unless you're sure your partner really wants to hear them.

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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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Mary Ritter Beard: [T]hose who sit...

Mary Ritter Beard: [T]hose who sit...

[T]hose who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world...

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Jane Austen: One cannot be...

Jane Austen: One cannot be...

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

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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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Margaret Chase Smith: Greatness is not...

Margaret Chase Smith: Greatness is not...

Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means...

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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: At first he...

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: At first he...

At first he was very discouraging, to my astonishment then, but now I fancy he did it as a forlorn hope to check me;...

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Emily Blackwell: For what is...

Emily Blackwell: For what is...

For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all...

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Beatrice Hinkle: Fundamentally the male...

Beatrice Hinkle: Fundamentally the male...

Fundamentally the male artist approximates more to the psychology of woman, who, biologically speaking, is a purely...

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Beatrice Hinkle: The creator does...

Beatrice Hinkle: The creator does...

The creator does not create only for the pleasure of creating but . . . he also desires to subdue other...

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Mary Ritter Beard: While it is...

Mary Ritter Beard: While it is...

While it is generally agreed that the visible expressions and agencies are necessary instruments, civilization seems...

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Mary Ritter Beard: Beneath the surface...

Mary Ritter Beard: Beneath the surface...

Beneath the surface of civilian interests and capitalistic enterprise smoldered embers of the world's war spirit --...

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Anne Sexton: Put your ear...

Anne Sexton: Put your ear...

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Simone Signoret: I suspect there...

Simone Signoret: I suspect there...

I suspect there isn't an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family's questions after his first day's...

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Georgia O'Keeffe: Before I put...

Georgia O'Keeffe: Before I put...

Before I put a brush to canvas, I question, Is this mine? . . . Is it influenced by some idea which I have acquired...

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