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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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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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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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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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Marlo Thomas: A feminist is...

Marlo Thomas: A feminist is...

A feminist is a man or woman who already knows for a fact that men and women are qual and wants society to wake up to...

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Gwendolyn Brooks: Poetry is life...

Gwendolyn Brooks: Poetry is life...

Poetry is life distilled.

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

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Amy Lowell: Moon!<br>Moon!<br>I am prone...

Amy Lowell: Moon!
Moon!
I am prone...

Moon!
Moon!
I am prone before you.
Pity me,
And drench me in loneliness.


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Lena Horne: Don't be afraid...

Lena Horne: Don't be afraid...

Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just...

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Nikki Giovanni: If you don't...

Nikki Giovanni: If you don't...

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

Source: A...

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Louise Erdrich: Here I am,...

Louise Erdrich: Here I am,...

Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, a place to love and be...

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Shelagh Delaney: [W]hen you leave...

Shelagh Delaney: [W]hen you leave...

[W]hen you leave school finally you will find that life is a game, sometimes serious, sometimes fun, but a game that...

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Lorraine Hansberry: One cannot live...

Lorraine Hansberry: One cannot live...

One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which affect the...

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Anne Bradstreet: And he...

Anne Bradstreet: And he...

And he that knowes the most, cloth still bemoan
He knows not all that here is to be...

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Grandma Moses: A primitive artist...

Grandma Moses: A primitive artist...

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

Source: In Webster's NewWorld...

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Bernice Fitz-Gibbon: Creativeness often consists...

Bernice Fitz-Gibbon: Creativeness often consists...

Creativeness often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that the right and left shoes...

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Mary Kay Ash: For every failure,...

Mary Kay Ash: For every failure,...

For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock,...

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Margot Fonteyn: Genius is another...

Margot Fonteyn: Genius is another...

Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.

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Nellie Melba: The first rule...

Nellie Melba: The first rule...

The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself.

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Rita Rudner: My mother buried...

Rita Rudner: My mother buried...

My mother buried three husbands . . . and two of them were only napping.

Source:...

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Hedda Hopper: In Hollywood gratitude...

Hedda Hopper: In Hollywood gratitude...

In Hollywood gratitude is Public Enemy Number One.

Source: From Under My Hat,...

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