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Sarah Josepha Hale: . . ....

Sarah Josepha Hale: . . ....

. . . rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising...

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Emily Dickinson: The brain is...

Emily Dickinson: The brain is...

The brain is wider than the sky;
For put them side by side
The one the other will contain with ease -
And you...

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Anne Sexton: In a dream...

Anne Sexton: In a dream...

In a dream you are never eighty.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...

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Marian Anderson: Sometimes you're overwhelmed...

Marian Anderson: Sometimes you're overwhelmed...

Sometimes you're overwhelmed when a thing comes, and you do not realize the magnitude of the affair at that moment....

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Susan Sarandon: Children reinvent your...

Susan Sarandon: Children reinvent your...

Children reinvent your world for you.

Source:
-- Susan Sarandon, (Oct 4...

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Rosalynn Carter: If we have...

Rosalynn Carter: If we have...

If we have not achieved our early dreams, we must either find new ones or see what we can salvage from the old. If we...

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Mary Church Terrell: We are the...

Mary Church Terrell: We are the...

We are the only human beings in the world with . . . 57 varieties of complexions who are classed together as a single...

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Billie Jean King: You've got to...

Billie Jean King: You've got to...

You've got to win in sports -- that's talent -- but you've also got to learn how to remind everybody how you did win,...

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Harriet Van Horne: There are days...

Harriet Van Horne: There are days...

There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more...

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Anne Hutchinson: An oath, sir,...

Anne Hutchinson: An oath, sir,...

An oath, sir, is an end of all strife, and it is God's ordinance.

Source: Spoken at...

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Anne Hutchinson: I thinke the...

Anne Hutchinson: I thinke the...

I thinke the soule to be nothing but Light.

Source: Spoken at her trial in Boston,...

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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: 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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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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Barbara Deming: Make it impossible...

Barbara Deming: Make it impossible...

Make it impossible for [the authority] to operate within the system as usual . . . making it impossible for him simply...

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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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Eileen Caddy: A human being...

Eileen Caddy: A human being...

A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Anna Jameson: Fame is that...

Anna Jameson: Fame is that...

Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds.

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Anne Frank: Who would ever...

Anne Frank: Who would ever...

Who would ever think that so much can go on in the soul of a young girl?

Source:...

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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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