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Christa McAuliffe: I have a...

Christa McAuliffe: I have a...

I have a box of papers at home of [my own press coverage]. When I'm sixty, maybe, I'll look at my pile of papers and...

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Barbara De Angelis: The greatest gift...

Barbara De Angelis: The greatest gift...

The greatest gift you and your partner can give your children is the example of an intimate, healthy, and loving...

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Erica Jong: No one ever...

Erica Jong: No one ever...

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the...

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E L Konigsburg: Happiness is excitement...

E L Konigsburg: Happiness is excitement...

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping...

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Patricia Schroeder: The mood of...

Patricia Schroeder: The mood of...

The mood of the 80s -- Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.

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Queen Mother Elizabeth: I would not...

Queen Mother Elizabeth: I would not...

I would not want it to be though that I had lived for all these years without having anything to show for...

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Ruth Benedict: Our faith in...

Ruth Benedict: Our faith in...

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

Source: An...

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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: The human mind...

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: The human mind...

The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.

Source: In...

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Sylvia Plath: If neurotic is...

Sylvia Plath: If neurotic is...

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be...

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Helene Deutsch: The embattled gates...

Helene Deutsch: The embattled gates...

The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself: That is not...

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Diane Ravitch: Most people believe...

Diane Ravitch: Most people believe...

Most people believe that schools were good enough when they were children and that they are good enough now. But the...

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Nannie Burroughs: What we need...

Nannie Burroughs: What we need...

What we need are mental and spiritual giants who are aflame with a purpose . . . We're a race ready for crusade, for...

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Catharine Esther Beecher: To open avenues...

Catharine Esther Beecher: To open avenues...

To open avenues to political place and power for all classes of women would cause [the] humble labors of the family...

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Grace Speare: When you think...

Grace Speare: When you think...

When you think something, you think in picture. You don't think a thought in words. You think a picture that expresses...

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Sonia Johnson: In our patriarchal...

Sonia Johnson: In our patriarchal...

In our patriarchal world, we are al1 taught -- whether we like to think we are or not -- that God, being male, values...

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Diane Sawyer: People tend to...

Diane Sawyer: People tend to...

People tend to vote the present tense -- not the subjective.

Source: On CBS-TV, 8...

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Marsha Norman: Success is always...

Marsha Norman: Success is always...

Success is always something that you have to recover from.

Source: Interviews with...

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Corita Kent: There are so...

Corita Kent: There are so...

There are so many hungry people that God cannot appear to them except in the form of...

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Louise Nevelson: A whisper can...

Louise Nevelson: A whisper can...

A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain.

Source:...

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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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