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Margaret Mead: Never doubt that...

Margaret Mead: Never doubt that...

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing...

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Mary Astell: Women are from...

Mary Astell: Women are from...

Women are from their very Infancy debarr'd those advantages [of education] with the want of which they are afterwards...

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Angela Davis: [H]uman beings cannot...

Angela Davis: [H]uman beings cannot...

[H]uman beings cannot be willed and molded into nonexistence.

Source: In Words of...

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Mary Church Terrell: Lifting as they...

Mary Church Terrell: Lifting as they...

Lifting as they climb, onward and upward they go struggling and striving and hoping that the buds and blossoms of...

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Sally Kempton: I became a...

Sally Kempton: I became a...

I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist.

Source: Cutting...

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Chris Evert Lloyd: If you can...

Chris Evert Lloyd: If you can...

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it...

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Mary Pettibone Poole: To repeat what...

Mary Pettibone Poole: To repeat what...

To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.

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Dorothy Parker: There was nothing...

Dorothy Parker: There was nothing...

There was nothing separate about her days,
Like drops upon a window-pane, they ran
together and trickled away. ....

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Helena Petrova Blavatsky: To act wisely...

Helena Petrova Blavatsky: To act wisely...

To act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the...

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Dorothy Parker: Her mind lives...

Dorothy Parker: Her mind lives...

Her mind lives tidily, apart
From cold and noise and pain,
And bolts the door against her heart,
Out wailing...

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Clare Boothe Luce: I don't have...

Clare Boothe Luce: I don't have...

I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define...

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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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Barbara Deming: Vengeance is not...

Barbara Deming: Vengeance is not...

Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most [people's] minds the thought of victory and the...

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Gretel Ehrlich: Am I like...

Gretel Ehrlich: Am I like...

Am I like the optimist who, while falling ten stories from a building, says at each story, I'm all right so...

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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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Chris Evert Lloyd: You've got to...

Chris Evert Lloyd: You've got to...

You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the...

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Joanna Baillie: The bliss e'en...

Joanna Baillie: The bliss e'en...

The bliss e'en of a moment still is bliss.

Source: The Reacon, Act 1, Sc. 2,...

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Tallulah Bankhead: Acting is a...

Tallulah Bankhead: Acting is a...

Acting is a form of confusion.

Source: Tallulah. 1952.
-- Tallulah Bankhead,...

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Minnie Maddern Fiske: You must not...

Minnie Maddern Fiske: You must not...

You must not allow yourself to be advised, cautioned, influenced, persuaded

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Marlene Dietrich: I love quotations...

Marlene Dietrich: I love quotations...

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by...

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