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Beryl Markham: In Africa people...

Beryl Markham: In Africa people...

In Africa people learn to serve each other. They live on credit balances of little favors that they give and may, one...

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Antoinette Brown Blackwell: Nature is just...

Antoinette Brown Blackwell: Nature is just...

Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.

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Rosa Parks: Have you ever...

Rosa Parks: Have you ever...

Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over...

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Mary Astell: If all men...

Mary Astell: If all men...

If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?

Source: In...

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Andrea Dworkin: Women are an...

Andrea Dworkin: Women are an...

Women are an enslaved population --the crop we harvest is children, the fields we work are houses. Women are forced...

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Andrea Dworkin: We think that...

Andrea Dworkin: We think that...

We think that we live in a heterosexual society because most men are fixated on women as sexual objects; but, in fact,...

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Fanny Burney: But if the...

Fanny Burney: But if the...

But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment. . ....

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Beatrice Hinkle: The creator does...

Beatrice Hinkle: The creator does...

The creator does not create only for the pleasure of creating but . . . he also desires to subdue other...

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Helene Deutsch: After all, the...

Helene Deutsch: After all, the...

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.

Source:...

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Doroth?e DeLuzy: We believe at...

Doroth?e DeLuzy: We believe at...

We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad?

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Anne Sullivan: People seldom see...

Anne Sullivan: People seldom see...

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is...

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Nannie Burroughs: What we need...

Nannie Burroughs: What we need...

What we need are mental and spiritual giants who are aflame with a purpose . . . We're a race ready for crusade, for...

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Freda Adler: There is another...

Freda Adler: There is another...

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke...

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Anna Julia Cooper: One needs occasionally...

Anna Julia Cooper: One needs occasionally...

One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of...

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Maria Montessori: If help and...

Maria Montessori: If help and...

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of...

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Barbara Tuchman: Honor wears different...

Barbara Tuchman: Honor wears different...

Honor wears different coats to different eyes.

Source: The Guns of August,...

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Mary Wortley Montagu: Whatever is clearly...

Mary Wortley Montagu: Whatever is clearly...

Whatever is clearly expressed is well wrote.

Source: letter to James Steuart, July...

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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: Love is the...

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: Love is the...

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an...

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Edith Hamilton: The fullness of...

Edith Hamilton: The fullness of...

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.

Source: The Great Age of Greek...

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Dorothy L Sayers: She always says,...

Dorothy L Sayers: She always says,...

She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run...

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