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Colette Dowling: Relationships are like...

Colette Dowling: Relationships are like...

Relationships are like a dance, with visible energy racing back and forth between partners. Some relationships are the...

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Jeanne-Marie Roland: People who know...

Jeanne-Marie Roland: People who know...

People who know how to employ themselves, always find leisure moments, while those who do nothing are forever in a...

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Ethel Percy Andrus: The human contribution...

Ethel Percy Andrus: The human contribution...

The human contribution is the essential ingredient.

Source: In The Last Word - A...

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Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: Women are systematically...

Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: Women are systematically...

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex,...

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Kate Chopin: The years that...

Kate Chopin: The years that...

The years that are gone seem like dreams -- if one might go on sleeping and dreaming -- but to wake up and find -- oh!...

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Phyllis McGinley: Praise is warming...

Phyllis McGinley: Praise is warming...

Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a...

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Helena Petrova Blavatsky: The Path that...

Helena Petrova Blavatsky: The Path that...

The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the...

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Helena Petrova Blavatsky: The more thou...

Helena Petrova Blavatsky: The more thou...

The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet.

Source: In Wisdom...

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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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Barbara Ehrenreich: So why do...

Barbara Ehrenreich: So why do...

So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because...

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Kate Chopin: There are some...

Kate Chopin: There are some...

There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the...

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Eileen Caddy: Expect your every...

Eileen Caddy: Expect your every...

Expect your every need to be met. Expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level . ....

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Judith Martin: If it's against...

Judith Martin: If it's against...

If it's against state law, it's generally considered a breach of Etiquette.

Source:...

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Anne Frank: I regard our...

Anne Frank: I regard our...

I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the...

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Julia Ward Howe: He hath loosed...

Julia Ward Howe: He hath loosed...

He hath loosed the fateful Iightning of his terrible swift sword.
His truth is marching...

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Jane Addams: You do not...

Jane Addams: You do not...

You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed! I am simply smothered and sickened with...

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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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Barbara Bush: You have to...

Barbara Bush: You have to...

You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way.

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Ruth Westheimer: Our way is...

Ruth Westheimer: Our way is...

Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, toward the...

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Jane Harrison: Old age, believe...

Jane Harrison: Old age, believe...

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you...

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