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Eliza Wood Burhans Farnham: Each of the...

Eliza Wood Burhans Farnham: Each of the...

Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse,...

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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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Peace Pilgrim: People see themselves...

Peace Pilgrim: People see themselves...

People see themselves as the center of the universe and judge everything as it relates to...

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Sonia Johnson: I liked the...

Sonia Johnson: I liked the...

I liked the name of the amendment. I couldn't help feeling uneasy that the church was opposing something with a name...

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Virginia Woolf: We all indulge...

Virginia Woolf: We all indulge...

We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone...

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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: 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: 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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Peace Pilgrim: I pray without...

Peace Pilgrim: I pray without...

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can...

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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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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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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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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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Deborah Tannen: We all know...

Deborah Tannen: We all know...

We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of...

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Kate Chopin: And moreover, to...

Kate Chopin: And moreover, to...

And moreover, to succeed, the artist must possess the courageous soul . . . the brave soul. The soul that dares and...

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Susan Sontag: It is the...

Susan Sontag: It is the...

It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the final word is...

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Dorothy Parker: Brevity is the...

Dorothy Parker: Brevity is the...

Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

Source: In Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell is...

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Ada Louise Huxtable: Every creative act...

Ada Louise Huxtable: Every creative act...

Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There is no such thing,...

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Elizabeth Kenny: The record of...

Elizabeth Kenny: The record of...

The record of one's life must needs prove more interesting to him who writes it than to him who reads what has been...

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