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Marita Bonner: The one real...

Marita Bonner: The one real...

The one real thing that money buys -- Time.

Source: On Being Young -- A Woman --...

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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: Sow good services:...

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: Sow good services:...

Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Edith Hamilton: When the mind...

Edith Hamilton: When the mind...

When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.

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Jane Austen: Why not seize...

Jane Austen: Why not seize...

Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish...

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Eleanor Roosevelt: Life was meant...

Eleanor Roosevelt: Life was meant...

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on...

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Marie Antoinette: There is nothing...

Marie Antoinette: There is nothing...

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Margaret Mead: I was brought...

Margaret Mead: I was brought...

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the...

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Margaret Thatcher: Why do you...

Margaret Thatcher: Why do you...

Why do you climb philosophical hills? Because they are worth climbing . . . There are no hills to go down unless you...

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Christina of Sweden: There is a...

Christina of Sweden: There is a...

There is a star above us which unites souls of the first order, though worlds and ages separate...

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Nancy Astor: The main dangers...

Nancy Astor: The main dangers...

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything -- or nothing.

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June Singer: The modern man...

June Singer: The modern man...

The modern man needs to rescue himself from cultural provincialism.

Source:...

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Nannie Burroughs: To struggle and...

Nannie Burroughs: To struggle and...

To struggle and battle and overcome and absolutely defeat every force designed against us is the only way to...

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bell hooks: Usually, when people...

bell hooks: Usually, when people...

Usually, when people talk about the strength of black women . . . . they ignore the reality that to be strong in the...

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Margot Asquith: Dear boy, it...

Margot Asquith: Dear boy, it...

Dear boy, it isn't that your manners are bad -- it's simply that you have no manners at...

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Erica Jong: It is for...

Erica Jong: It is for...

It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I...

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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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Patricia Meyer Spacks: Theories by women...

Patricia Meyer Spacks: Theories by women...

Theories by women about women have only recently begun to appear in print. Theories by men about women are...

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Hannah Arendt: Revolutionaries do not...

Hannah Arendt: Revolutionaries do not...

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and...

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Hannah Arendt: Economic growth may...

Hannah Arendt: Economic growth may...

Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into...

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