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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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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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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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Greta Garbo: Every one of...

Greta Garbo: Every one of...

Every one of us lives his life just once; if we are honest, to live once is enough.

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Minnie Maddern Fiske: You must not...

Minnie Maddern Fiske: You must not...

You must not allow yourself to be advised, cautioned, influenced, persuaded

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Wilma Pearl Mankiller: I've run into...

Wilma Pearl Mankiller: I've run into...

I've run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian.

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Joan Baez: The easiest kind...

Joan Baez: The easiest kind...

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with...

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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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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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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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Emily James Putnam: But the typical...

Emily James Putnam: But the typical...

But the typical lady everywhere tends to the feudal habit of mind.

Source:...

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Freda Adler: If one would...

Freda Adler: If one would...

If one would discern the centers of dominance in any society, one need only look to its definitions of virtue and vice...

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Mother Teresa: There should be...

Mother Teresa: There should be...

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean...

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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: Politeness is the...

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: Politeness is the...

Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.

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Margot Asquith: His modesty amounts...

Margot Asquith: His modesty amounts...

His modesty amounts to deformity.

Source: Referring to her husband. As I...

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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 Victoria: I don't dislike...

Queen Victoria: I don't dislike...

I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.

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Elizabeth II: To what greater...

Elizabeth II: To what greater...

To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house,...

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Ninon de Lenclos: The resistance of...

Ninon de Lenclos: The resistance of...

The resistance of a woman is not always proof of her virtue but more frequently of her...

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Margaret Thatcher: Why do you...

Margaret Thatcher: Why do you...

Why do you climb philosophical hills? Because they are worth climbing . . . There are no hills to go down unless you...

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