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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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Sarah Louise Delany: . ....

Sarah Louise Delany: . ....

. . . we never worked for white people in their homes. No, sir, not even once! That is one of the accomplishments in...

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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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Freda Adler: Major social movements....

Freda Adler: Major social movements....

Major social movements. . . eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have...

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Anna Julia Cooper: One needs occasionally...

Anna Julia Cooper: One needs occasionally...

One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of...

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Sylvia Ashton-Warner: As the blackness...

Sylvia Ashton-Warner: As the blackness...

As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so...

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Carolyn Heilbrun: Ideas move rapidly...

Carolyn Heilbrun: Ideas move rapidly...

Ideas move rapidly when their time comes.

Source: Toward a Recognition of...

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Patty Berg: It's a wonderful...

Patty Berg: It's a wonderful...

It's a wonderful day for me, I made it to 80.

Source: On her 80th birthday.
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Martina Navratilova: Whoever said, It's...

Martina Navratilova: Whoever said, It's...

Whoever said, It's not whether you win or lose that counts, probably lost.

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Anna Kournikova: I worked very...

Anna Kournikova: I worked very...

I worked very hard and I earned all the attention I'm getting.

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Wilma Rudolph: I had a...

Wilma Rudolph: I had a...

I had a series of childhood illnesses . . . scarlet fever . . . . pneumonia . . . . Polio. I walked with braces until...

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Kate Chopin: The years that...

Kate Chopin: The years that...

The years that are gone seem like dreams -- if one might go on sleeping and dreaming -- but to wake up and find -- oh!...

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Elizabeth Fry: I hope, if...

Elizabeth Fry: I hope, if...

I hope, if you should live to grow up, you will endeavour to be very useful and not spend all your time in pleasing...

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Harriet Tubman: I link dar's...

Harriet Tubman: I link dar's...

I link dar's many a slaveholder'll git to Heaven. Dey don't know no better. Dey acts up to de light dey...

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Starhawk: Spirituality leaps where...

Starhawk: Spirituality leaps where...

Spirituality leaps where science cannot yet follow, because science must always test and measure, and much of reality...

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Rosa Parks: I believe that...

Rosa Parks: I believe that...

I believe that we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place...

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Betty Friedan: When she stopped...

Betty Friedan: When she stopped...

When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a...

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Virginia Woolf: One likes people...

Virginia Woolf: One likes people...

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they...

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Andrea Dworkin: Men who want...

Andrea Dworkin: Men who want...

Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically...

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Elizabeth Fry: I wish the...

Elizabeth Fry: I wish the...

I wish the state of enthusiasm I am now in may last, for today I FELT there is a God. I have been devotional and my...

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