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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: 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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Louise A Bogan: I cannot believe...

Louise A Bogan: I cannot believe...

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world...

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Ruth Gordon: The best impromptu...

Ruth Gordon: The best impromptu...

The best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.

Source: In Words...

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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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Mary Kay Ash: There are two...

Mary Kay Ash: There are two...

There are two things people want more than sex and money -- recognition and praise.

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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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Margot Fonteyn: Genius is another...

Margot Fonteyn: Genius is another...

Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.

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Beverly Sills: A happy woman...

Beverly Sills: A happy woman...

A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her...

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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.

Source: In Words of...

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Harriet Tubman: Never wound a...

Harriet Tubman: Never wound a...

Never wound a snake, kill it.

Source: In The Black Woman's Gumbo Ya-Ya, by Terri L....

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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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Barbara Deming: Vengeance is not...

Barbara Deming: Vengeance is not...

Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most [people's] minds the thought of victory and the...

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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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Chris Evert Lloyd: If you can...

Chris Evert Lloyd: If you can...

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it...

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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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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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Adelle Davis: To say that...

Adelle Davis: To say that...

To say that obesity is caused by merely consuming too many calories is like saying that the only cause of the American...

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