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Catherine the Great: Your wits make...

Catherine the Great: Your wits make...

Your wits make others witty.

Source: Letter to Voltaire, In The Complete Works of...

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Abigail Adams: If particular care...

Abigail Adams: If particular care...

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold...

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Etty Hillesum: One must also...

Etty Hillesum: One must also...

One must also accept that one has uncreative moments. The more honestly one can accept that, the quicker these moments...

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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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Gail Pursell Elliott: As a society,...

Gail Pursell Elliott: As a society,...

As a society, we have come to a point where people too often treat one another as objects and opportunities, rather...

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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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Katherine Mansfield: Tidied all my...

Katherine Mansfield: Tidied all my...

Tidied all my papers. Tore up and ruthlessly destroyed much. This is always a great...

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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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Queen Victoria: We are not...

Queen Victoria: We are not...

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist.

Source:...

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Elizabeth I: Brass shines as...

Elizabeth I: Brass shines as...

Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.

Source: Letter,...

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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: 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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Joan L Curcio: Violence in the...

Joan L Curcio: Violence in the...

Violence in the schools: How to proactively prevent and defuse it.

Source: Book...

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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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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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Carry Nation: If you don't...

Carry Nation: If you don't...

If you don't do it, then the women of this state will do it . . . You refused me the vote and I had to use a...

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Olympia Brown: How natural that...

Olympia Brown: How natural that...

How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which...

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Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: Nothing contributes so...

Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: Nothing contributes so...

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its...

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Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: Every political good...

Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: Every political good...

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

Source: The...

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Althea Gibson: In sports, you...

Althea Gibson: In sports, you...

In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it...

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