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Charlotte Bronte: I am always...

Charlotte Bronte: I am always...

I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.

Source: Shirley, 1849.
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Aphra Behn: There is no...

Aphra Behn: There is no...

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Source: Willmore, in The Rover, act 1, sc....

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Gwendolyn Brooks: We real cool....

Gwendolyn Brooks: We real cool....

We real cool. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin....

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Emily Dickinson: Anger as soon...

Emily Dickinson: Anger as soon...

Anger as soon as fed is dead -
'Tis starving makes it fat.


Source: Poems, Second...

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Emily Dickinson: A Wounded deer...

Emily Dickinson: A Wounded deer...

A Wounded deer - leaps highest.

Source: 1860; Poems, First Series, 1890.
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Madonna: To me, the...

Madonna: To me, the...

To me, the whole process of being a brushstroke in someone else's painting is a little...

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Catherine the Great: A great wind...

Catherine the Great: A great wind...

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.

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Barbara Bush: I listen and...

Barbara Bush: I listen and...

I listen and give input only if somebody asks.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations...

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Yoko Ono: Everybody's an artist....

Yoko Ono: Everybody's an artist....

Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.

Source:...

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Peace Pilgrim: Anything you cannot...

Peace Pilgrim: Anything you cannot...

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a...

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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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Harriet Tubman: I would fight...

Harriet Tubman: I would fight...

I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them...

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Harriet Tubman: Never wound a...

Harriet Tubman: Never wound a...

Never wound a snake, kill it.

Source: In The Black Woman's Gumbo Ya-Ya, by Terri L....

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Sojourner Truth: Those are the...

Sojourner Truth: Those are the...

Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see...

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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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Coretta Scott King: If American women...

Coretta Scott King: If American women...

If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget...

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Dorothy Day: We have all...

Dorothy Day: We have all...

We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with...

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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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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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Robin Morgan: It isn't until...

Robin Morgan: It isn't until...

It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you (a) become really committed to winning, and (b) become a...

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