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Isabelle Eberhardt: A nomad I...

Isabelle Eberhardt: A nomad I...

A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.

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Isabelle Eberhardt: I am not...

Isabelle Eberhardt: I am not...

I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way.

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Ruth Benedict: We grow in...

Ruth Benedict: We grow in...

We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.

Source: An Anthropologist at...

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Ruth Benedict: If we justify...

Ruth Benedict: If we justify...

If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not...

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Eleanor Roosevelt: I believe that...

Eleanor Roosevelt: I believe that...

I believe that all that we go through here must have some value.

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Corazon Aquino: It is not...

Corazon Aquino: It is not...

It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history.

Source: Alluding to...

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Ellen Swallow Richards: The environment that...

Ellen Swallow Richards: The environment that...

The environment that people live in is the environment that they learn to live in, respond to, and perpetuate. If the...

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Isabelle Eberhardt: I am full...

Isabelle Eberhardt: I am full...

I am full of the sorrow that goes with changes in surroundings, those successive stages of annihilation that slowly...

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Charlotte Forten Grimke: Ah, what a...

Charlotte Forten Grimke: Ah, what a...

Ah, what a grand, glorious day this has been. The dawn of freedom which it heralds may not break upon us at once; but...

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Anne Wilson Schaef: Trusting our intuition...

Anne Wilson Schaef: Trusting our intuition...

Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Mary Ritter Beard: In their quest...

Mary Ritter Beard: In their quest...

In their quest for rights they [women] have naturally placed emphasis on their wrongs, rather than their achievements...

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Corrie Ten Boom: Faith is like...

Corrie Ten Boom: Faith is like...

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot...

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Alice Paul: I never doubted...

Alice Paul: I never doubted...

I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me...

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Marianne Williamson: If you give...

Marianne Williamson: If you give...

If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love, then love will wholeheartedly respond to...

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St Teresa of Avila: Remember that you...

St Teresa of Avila: Remember that you...

Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you...

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Hannah Arendt: Storytelling reveals meaning...

Hannah Arendt: Storytelling reveals meaning...

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

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Ann Plato: [O]ne science, however,...

Ann Plato: [O]ne science, however,...

[O]ne science, however, there is, worth more than all the rest, and that is the science of living well -- which shall...

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Kirstie Alley: People change, not...

Kirstie Alley: People change, not...

People change, not necessarily in negative ways. Sometimes goals and intentions in life aren't aligned. It's just...

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Jackie Moms Mabley: Love is like...

Jackie Moms Mabley: Love is like...

Love is like playing checkers. You have to know which man to move.

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Peg Bracken: It's easier to...

Peg Bracken: It's easier to...

It's easier to find a traveling companion than to get rid of one.

Source: But I...

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