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Judith Jamison: I believe that...

Judith Jamison: I believe that...

I believe that this world was set about for us to enjoy and to love and to experience and to have it all be, to a...

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Beverly Sills: A happy woman...

Beverly Sills: A happy woman...

A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her...

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Lotte Lehmann: Do not become...

Lotte Lehmann: Do not become...

Do not become paralyzed and enchained by the set patterns which have been woven of old. No, build from your own...

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Alice Duer Miller: If it's very...

Alice Duer Miller: If it's very...

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends -- you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest...

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Joanna Baillie: I have seen...

Joanna Baillie: I have seen...

I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is...

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Eleanor Robson Belmont: In retrospect, the...

Eleanor Robson Belmont: In retrospect, the...

In retrospect, the past seems not one existence with a continuous flow of years and events that follow each other in...

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Oprah Winfrey: Follow your instincts....

Oprah Winfrey: Follow your instincts....

Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

Source: In The...

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Jeanne Moreau: Acting deals with...

Jeanne Moreau: Acting deals with...

Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he...

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Didi Conn: In terms of...

Didi Conn: In terms of...

In terms of my store of emotional experiences it now as many more aisles than twenty years ago to pick...

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Rita Rudner: My mother buried...

Rita Rudner: My mother buried...

My mother buried three husbands . . . and two of them were only napping.

Source:...

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Hazel Scott: I've always known...

Hazel Scott: I've always known...

I've always known I was gifted, which is not the easiest thing in the world for a person to know, because you're not...

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Carry Nation: If you don't...

Carry Nation: If you don't...

If you don't do it, then the women of this state will do it . . . You refused me the vote and I had to use a...

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Olympia Brown: How natural that...

Olympia Brown: How natural that...

How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which...

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Florida Scott-Maxwell: No matter how...

Florida Scott-Maxwell: No matter how...

No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of...

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Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: Nothing contributes so...

Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: Nothing contributes so...

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its...

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Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: The beginning is...

Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: The beginning is...

The beginning is always today.

Source: From Journey in Word, ed. Cyndi Craven; an...

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Helena Petrova Blavatsky: Knowledge increases in...

Helena Petrova Blavatsky: Knowledge increases in...

Knowledge increases in proportion to its use -- that is, the more we teach the more we...

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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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Mary Baker Eddy: To live and...

Mary Baker Eddy: To live and...

To live and let live, without clamour for distinction or recognition; . . . to write truth first on the tablet of...

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Mary Daly: It is the...

Mary Daly: It is the...

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

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