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Charlotte Perkins Gilman: To swallow and...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman: To swallow and...

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human...

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Beatrice Potter Webb: Religion is love;...

Beatrice Potter Webb: Religion is love;...

Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

Source: My Apprenticeship, Ch. 2,...

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Katherine Dunham: Go within every...

Katherine Dunham: Go within every...

Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle...

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Abigail Adams: We have too...

Abigail Adams: We have too...

We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

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Antoinette Brown Blackwell: The sexes in...

Antoinette Brown Blackwell: The sexes in...

The sexes in each species of being . . . are always true equivalents -- equals but not...

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Virginia Woolf: We all indulge...

Virginia Woolf: We all indulge...

We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone...

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Lucretia Mott: Let woman then...

Lucretia Mott: Let woman then...

Let woman then go on -- not asking as favour, but claiming as right, the removal of all the hindrances to her...

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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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Amelia Earhart: The more one...

Amelia Earhart: The more one...

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of...

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Harriet Tubman: I would fight...

Harriet Tubman: I would fight...

I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them...

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Angela Davis: Progressive art can...

Angela Davis: Progressive art can...

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they...

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Barbara Ehrenreich: We who officially...

Barbara Ehrenreich: We who officially...

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the...

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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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Georgie Anne Geyer: Not only does...

Georgie Anne Geyer: Not only does...

Not only does the world scarcely know who the Latin American man is, the world has barely...

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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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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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Gail Pursell Elliott: Life?s lessons may...

Gail Pursell Elliott: Life?s lessons may...

Life?s lessons may be viewed as difficulties or challenges to be overcome, but in reality they are an exercise in fine...

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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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Corazon Aquino: They came out...

Corazon Aquino: They came out...

They came out in the millions to show their dogged support for the woman the dictatorship claimed it had defeated in...

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Vicki Baum: Fame always brings...

Vicki Baum: Fame always brings...

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

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