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Margot Asquith: Symbols are the...

Margot Asquith: Symbols are the...

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

Source: More or Less about Myself,...

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Margery Allingham: When the habitually...

Margery Allingham: When the habitually...

When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the...

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Hannah Arendt: Fear is an...

Hannah Arendt: Fear is an...

Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Hannah Arendt: The earth is...

Hannah Arendt: The earth is...

The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

Source: The Human...

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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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Grace Murray Hopper: You cannot manage...

Grace Murray Hopper: You cannot manage...

You cannot manage men into battle. You manage things; you lead people.

Source: In...

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Dorothy L Sayers: Books . ....

Dorothy L Sayers: Books . ....

Books . . . are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as...

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Alice Paul: I always feel...

Alice Paul: I always feel...

I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic. Each of us puts in one little stone, and then you get a great mosaic...

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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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Dorothy L Sayers: Very dangerous things,...

Dorothy L Sayers: Very dangerous things,...

Very dangerous things, theories.

Source: The Unpleasantness at the Bellona...

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Katherine Mansfield: Risk! Risk anything!...

Katherine Mansfield: Risk! Risk anything!...

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you....

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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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Nadine Gordimer: The creative act...

Nadine Gordimer: The creative act...

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read...

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Anne Rice: Very few beings...

Anne Rice: Very few beings...

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to...

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Barbara Bush: I'm not saying...

Barbara Bush: I'm not saying...

I'm not saying to be happy you must be married. Nor am I saying that to be happy you need children. I'm saying that...

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Dianne Feinstein: Ninety percent of...

Dianne Feinstein: Ninety percent of...

Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.

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Elizabeth I: Brass shines as...

Elizabeth I: Brass shines as...

Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.

Source: Letter,...

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Gwendolyn Brooks: I am a...

Gwendolyn Brooks: I am a...

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.

Source: In My Soul Looks Back,...

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Ann (and Jane) Taylor: Oh, that it...

Ann (and Jane) Taylor: Oh, that it...

Oh, that it were my chief delight
To do the things I ought!
Then let me try with all my might
To mind what I...

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Zora Neale Hurston: People can be...

Zora Neale Hurston: People can be...

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for...

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