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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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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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Dorothy Height: We have to...

Dorothy Height: We have to...

We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. ...

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Sonia Johnson: It's only when...

Sonia Johnson: It's only when...

It's only when we have nothing else to hold onto that we're willing to try something very audacious and scary . ....

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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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Dorothy Day: The best thing...

Dorothy Day: The best thing...

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

Source: In...

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Mary Catherine Bateson: Fear is not...

Mary Catherine Bateson: Fear is not...

Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.

Source: A...

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Jane Harrison: Marriage, for a...

Jane Harrison: Marriage, for a...

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and...

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Catharine Esther Beecher: Woman's great mission...

Catharine Esther Beecher: Woman's great mission...

Woman's great mission is to train immature weak, and ignorant creatures to obey the laws of God; the physical, the...

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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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Patricia Meyer Spacks: Theories by women...

Patricia Meyer Spacks: Theories by women...

Theories by women about women have only recently begun to appear in print. Theories by men about women are...

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Hannah Arendt: Poets. . ....

Hannah Arendt: Poets. . ....

Poets. . . are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles...

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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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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: Sow good services:...

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: Sow good services:...

Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Katherine Mansfield: Tidied all my...

Katherine Mansfield: Tidied all my...

Tidied all my papers. Tore up and ruthlessly destroyed much. This is always a great...

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Nancy Astor: I used to...

Nancy Astor: I used to...

I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that...

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Edna Ferber: I think that...

Edna Ferber: I think that...

I think that in order to write really well and convincingly, one must he somewhat poisoned by emotion. Dislike,...

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Tillie Olsen: And when is...

Tillie Olsen: And when is...

And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?

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Mary Astor: It's not good...

Mary Astor: It's not good...

It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the...

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Yoko Ono: Everybody's an artist....

Yoko Ono: Everybody's an artist....

Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.

Source:...

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