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Mary Lyon: Nine-tenths of our...

Mary Lyon: Nine-tenths of our...

Nine-tenths of our suffering is caused by others not thinking so much of us as we think they...

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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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Margot Asquith: The ingrained idea...

Margot Asquith: The ingrained idea...

The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is...

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Pauline Kael: I believe that...

Pauline Kael: I believe that...

I believe that we respond most and best to work in any art form (and to other experience as well) if we are...

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Mary Church Terrell: We are the...

Mary Church Terrell: We are the...

We are the only human beings in the world with . . . 57 varieties of complexions who are classed together as a single...

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Billie Jean King: The trouble with...

Billie Jean King: The trouble with...

The trouble with being number one in the world - in anything- is that it takes a certain mentality to attain that...

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Virginia Woolf: We all indulge...

Virginia Woolf: We all indulge...

We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone...

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Barbara Deming: Think first of...

Barbara Deming: Think first of...

Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's...

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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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Peace Pilgrim: I've met a...

Peace Pilgrim: I've met a...

I've met a few people who had to change their jobs in order to change their lives, but I've met many more people who...

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Peace Pilgrim: Make food a...

Peace Pilgrim: Make food a...

Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly...

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Dorothy Height: We've got to...

Dorothy Height: We've got to...

We've got to work to save our children and do it with full respect for the fact that if we do not, no one else is...

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Rosa Parks: Have you ever...

Rosa Parks: Have you ever...

Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over...

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Barbara Deming: A great many...

Barbara Deming: A great many...

A great many of us [must] move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of...

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Andrea Dworkin: We as women...

Andrea Dworkin: We as women...

We as women know that there are no disembodied processes; that all history originates in human flesh; that all...

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Laura Ingalls Wilder: If enough people...

Laura Ingalls Wilder: If enough people...

If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and...

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Kate Chopin: But the beginning...

Kate Chopin: But the beginning...

But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly...

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Josephine St Pierre Ruffin: We are justified...

Josephine St Pierre Ruffin: We are justified...

We are justified in believing that the success of this movement for equality of the sexes means more progress toward...

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Diane Sawyer: People tend to...

Diane Sawyer: People tend to...

People tend to vote the present tense -- not the subjective.

Source: On CBS-TV, 8...

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Nikki Giovanni: If you don't...

Nikki Giovanni: If you don't...

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

Source: A...

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