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Harriet Van Horne: The time of...

Harriet Van Horne: The time of...

The time of the rack and the screws is come. Summer television has set in with its usual severity. And the small...

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Georgie Anne Geyer: The more revolutions...

Georgie Anne Geyer: The more revolutions...

The more revolutions occur, the less things change.

Source: The New Latins,...

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Erma Bombeck: If you can't...

Erma Bombeck: If you can't...

If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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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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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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Sojourner Truth: The rich rob...

Sojourner Truth: The rich rob...

The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.

Source: Saying.
-- Sojourner...

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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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Agatha Christie: I didn't want...

Agatha Christie: I didn't want...

I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing...

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Vicki Baum: What I like...

Vicki Baum: What I like...

What I like about Hollywood is that one can get along by knowing two words of English -- SWELL and...

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bell hooks: The academy is...

bell hooks: The academy is...

The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.

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Barbara Tuchman: Honor wears different...

Barbara Tuchman: Honor wears different...

Honor wears different coats to different eyes.

Source: The Guns of August,...

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Toni Morrison: The ability of...

Toni Morrison: The ability of...

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the...

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Gayl Jones: You change the...

Gayl Jones: You change the...

You change the rhythm of the talk and respoonse and you change the rhythm between the talk and the...

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Rose Elizabeth Bird: It's always the...

Rose Elizabeth Bird: It's always the...

It's always the minorities who aren't a part of the mainstream who define what the limits . . . of the majority are...

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Hannah Arendt: Only the mob...

Hannah Arendt: Only the mob...

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by...

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Hannah Arendt: Man cannot be...

Hannah Arendt: Man cannot be...

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never...

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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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Edith Hamilton: The fullness of...

Edith Hamilton: The fullness of...

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.

Source: The Great Age of Greek...

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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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