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Florence King: I'm for prayer...

Florence King: I'm for prayer...

I'm for prayer in the schools because ritual and ceremony are calming and civilizing, and the little fartlings should...

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Phyllis McGinley: A lady is...

Phyllis McGinley: A lady is...

A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe,
She can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby,
She can use her...

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Mary Church Terrell: To the lack...

Mary Church Terrell: To the lack...

To the lack of incentive to effort, which is the awful shadow under which we live, may be traced the wreck and ruin of...

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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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Wilma Rudolph: I had a...

Wilma Rudolph: I had a...

I had a series of childhood illnesses . . . scarlet fever . . . . pneumonia . . . . Polio. I walked with braces until...

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Babe Didrikson Zaharias: Before I was...

Babe Didrikson Zaharias: Before I was...

Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the greatest...

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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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Antoinette Brown Blackwell: A woman finds...

Antoinette Brown Blackwell: A woman finds...

A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and...

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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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Barbara Deming: We learn best...

Barbara Deming: We learn best...

We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women -- whose stories, for...

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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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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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Helena Petrova Blavatsky: We live in...

Helena Petrova Blavatsky: We live in...

We live in an age of prejudice, dissimulation and paradox, wherein, like dry leaves caught in a whirlpool, some of us...

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Georgie Anne Geyer: Not only does...

Georgie Anne Geyer: Not only does...

Not only does the world scarcely know who the Latin American man is, the world has barely...

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Georgia O'Keeffe: Before I put...

Georgia O'Keeffe: Before I put...

Before I put a brush to canvas, I question, Is this mine? . . . Is it influenced by some idea which I have acquired...

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Georgia O'Keeffe: I don't much...

Georgia O'Keeffe: I don't much...

I don't much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them...

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Georgia O'Keeffe: [Sun-bleached bones] were...

Georgia O'Keeffe: [Sun-bleached bones] were...

[Sun-bleached bones] were most wonderful against the blue -- that blue that will always be there as it is now after...

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Barbara Hepworth: One must be...

Barbara Hepworth: One must be...

One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny...

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Louise Nevelson: From the first...

Louise Nevelson: From the first...

From the first day in school until the day I graduated, everyone gave me one hundred plus in art. Well, where do you...

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Louise Nevelson: You must create...

Louise Nevelson: You must create...

You must create your own world. I am responsible for my world.

Source: In Words of...

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