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Frances Watkins Harper: The true aim...

Frances Watkins Harper: The true aim...

The true aim of female education should be, not a development of one or two, but all the faculties of the human soul,...

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Greta Garbo: I'm afraid of...

Greta Garbo: I'm afraid of...

I'm afraid of nothing except being bored.

Source: Garbo to Robert Taylor in...

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Deborah Kerr: [Autobiographies] are all...

Deborah Kerr: [Autobiographies] are all...

[Autobiographies] are all the same -- it's always rags-to-riches or I-slept-with-so-and-so. Damned if I'm going to say...

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Marie Dressler: Fate cast me...

Marie Dressler: Fate cast me...

Fate cast me to play the role of an ugly duckling with no promise of swanning. . . . I have played my life as a comedy...

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Betty Grable: I'm a song...

Betty Grable: I'm a song...

I'm a song and dance girl. I can act enough to get by. But that's the limit of my talents.

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Shirley Booth: Life's never quite...

Shirley Booth: Life's never quite...

Life's never quite interesting enough, somehow. You people who come to the movies know that. [in The...

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Claudette Colbert: I bet you...

Claudette Colbert: I bet you...

I bet you think an egg is something you casually order for breakfast when you can't think of anything else. Well, so...

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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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Starhawk: Any ritual is...

Starhawk: Any ritual is...

Any ritual is an opportunity for transformation.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Florence Nightingale: I think one's...

Florence Nightingale: I think one's...

I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring...

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Ruth Westheimer: Don't share your...

Ruth Westheimer: Don't share your...

Don't share your fantasies unless you're sure your partner really wants to hear them.

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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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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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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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Grace Murray Hopper: Some day, on...

Grace Murray Hopper: Some day, on...

Some day, on the corporate balance sheet, there will be an entry which reads, Information; for in most cases, the...

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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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Diane Ravitch: The ladder was...

Diane Ravitch: The ladder was...

The ladder was there, from the gutter to the university, and for those stalwart enough to ascend it, the schools were...

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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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Maria Montessori: If help and...

Maria Montessori: If help and...

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of...

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