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Antoinette Brown Blackwell: There were angry...

Antoinette Brown Blackwell: There were angry...

There were angry men confronting me and I caught the flashing of defiant eyes, but above me and within me, there was a...

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Rosa Parks: I believe that...

Rosa Parks: I believe that...

I believe that we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place...

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Gloria Steinem: Power can be...

Gloria Steinem: Power can be...

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

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Florence Nightingale: To understand God's...

Florence Nightingale: To understand God's...

To understand God's thoughts, we must study statistics, for these are the measure of His...

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Andrea Dworkin: Women are an...

Andrea Dworkin: Women are an...

Women are an enslaved population --the crop we harvest is children, the fields we work are houses. Women are forced...

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Alice Roosevelt Longworth: I have a...

Alice Roosevelt Longworth: I have a...

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it...

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Elsa Schiaparelli: In difficult times...

Elsa Schiaparelli: In difficult times...

In difficult times fashion is always outrageous.

Source: In The Quotable Quotations...

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Georgia O'Keeffe: I hate flowers...

Georgia O'Keeffe: I hate flowers...

I hate flowers -- I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.

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Barbara Hepworth: [My works are]...

Barbara Hepworth: [My works are]...

[My works are] an imitation of my own past and present and of my own creative vitality as I experience them in one...

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Bernice Fitz-Gibbon: A good ad...

Bernice Fitz-Gibbon: A good ad...

A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the...

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Helena Rubinstein: There are no...

Helena Rubinstein: There are no...

There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.

Source: My Life for Beauty, pt. II, ch....

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Katharine Graham: If we had...

Katharine Graham: If we had...

If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an...

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May Sarton: In a total...

May Sarton: In a total...

In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.

Source: Mrs....

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Nikki Giovanni: We black women...

Nikki Giovanni: We black women...

We black women are the single group in the West intact. And anybody can see we're pretty shaky. We are, however (all...

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Nikki Giovanni: If now isn't...

Nikki Giovanni: If now isn't...

If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.

Source: In...

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Marsha Norman: Success is always...

Marsha Norman: Success is always...

Success is always something that you have to recover from.

Source: Interviews with...

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Hannah Cowley: Every body about...

Hannah Cowley: Every body about...

Every body about me seem'd happy but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere...

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Lorraine Hansberry: Take away the...

Lorraine Hansberry: Take away the...

Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace?

Source:
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Aphra Behn: Faith, Sir, we...

Aphra Behn: Faith, Sir, we...

Faith, Sir, we are here to-day, and gone tomorrow.

Source: The Lucky Chance, IV,...

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Emily Dickinson: I cannot live...

Emily Dickinson: I cannot live...

I cannot live with You --
It would be Life --
And Life is over there --
Behind the...

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