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Meridel Le Sueur: Each generation must...

Meridel Le Sueur: Each generation must...

Each generation must go further than the last or what's the use in it?

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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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Dorothy L Sayers: She always says,...

Dorothy L Sayers: She always says,...

She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run...

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Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco: It is never...

Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco: It is never...

It is never any good dwelling on goodbyes. It is not the being together it prolongs, it is the...

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Carter Heyward: Love is a...

Carter Heyward: Love is a...

Love is a choice -- not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others...

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St Teresa of Avila: Patient endurance<br>Attaineth to...

St Teresa of Avila: Patient endurance
Attaineth to...

Patient endurance
Attaineth to all things;
Who God possesseth
In nothing is wanting;
Alone God...

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M F K Fisher: . . ....

M F K Fisher: . . ....

. . . word-sniffing . . . is an addiction, like glue -- or snow -- sniffing in a somewhat less destructive way,...

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Annie Elizabeth Delany: When Negroes are...

Annie Elizabeth Delany: When Negroes are...

When Negroes are average, they fail, unless they are very, very lucky. Now, if you're average and white, honey, you...

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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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Johnnetta Betsch Cole: If folks can...

Johnnetta Betsch Cole: If folks can...

If folks can learn to be racist, then they can learn to be anti racist. If being sexist ain't genetic, then, dad gum,...

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Frances Perkins: The quality of...

Frances Perkins: The quality of...

The quality of his being one with the people, of having no artificial or natural barriers between him and them, made...

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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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Nelly Sachs: You, the inexperienced,...

Nelly Sachs: You, the inexperienced,...

You, the inexperienced, who learn nothing in the nights.
Many angels are given you
But you do not see...

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Lauren Bacall: The purity of...

Lauren Bacall: The purity of...

The purity of Jewish upbringing is the restrictions that one carries through life being a nice Jewish girl -- what a...

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Ruth Draper: Aren't the artists...

Ruth Draper: Aren't the artists...

Aren't the artists brave to go out and paint a sea as rough as that? . . . I don't see how he kept his canvas...

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Zsa Zsa Gabor: Husbands are like...

Zsa Zsa Gabor: Husbands are like...

Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.

Source: In Newsweek, 28 Mar...

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Shelagh Delaney: Women never have...

Shelagh Delaney: Women never have...

Women never have young minds. They were born three thousand years old.

Source: A...

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Gloria Vanderbilt: I've always believed...

Gloria Vanderbilt: I've always believed...

I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.

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Grandma Moses: A primitive artist...

Grandma Moses: A primitive artist...

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

Source: In Webster's NewWorld...

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Louise Nevelson: It gave me...

Louise Nevelson: It gave me...

It gave me great pleasure to think that I could take wood, make it good, and make people like Rockefeller buy it with...

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