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Tallulah Bankhead: It's one of...

Tallulah Bankhead: It's one of...

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theater that only one man in it can count on steady work -- the night...

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Anna Kournikova: I'm like an...

Anna Kournikova: I'm like an...

I'm like an expensive menu. . . you can look but you can't afford!

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Helena Petrova Blavatsky: The more thou...

Helena Petrova Blavatsky: The more thou...

The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire --...

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Helena Petrova Blavatsky: We live in...

Helena Petrova Blavatsky: We live in...

We live in an age of prejudice, dissimulation and paradox, wherein, like dry leaves caught in a whirlpool, some of us...

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Martha Beck: Every instance of...

Martha Beck: Every instance of...

Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really...

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Erma Bombeck: Dreams have only...

Erma Bombeck: Dreams have only...

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.

Source: In...

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Anya Seton: There are many...

Anya Seton: There are many...

There are many trails up the mountain, but in time they all reach the top.

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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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Virginia Woolf: One likes people...

Virginia Woolf: One likes people...

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they...

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Barbara Deming: We learn best...

Barbara Deming: We learn best...

We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women -- whose stories, for...

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Anna Jameson: All my experience...

Anna Jameson: All my experience...

All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a...

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Anna Jameson: A man may...

Anna Jameson: A man may...

A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.

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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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Germaine Greer: Human beings have...

Germaine Greer: Human beings have...

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called...

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Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: Taught from infancy...

Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: Taught from infancy...

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt...

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Marilyn vos Savant: Skill is successfully...

Marilyn vos Savant: Skill is successfully...

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is...

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Peace Pilgrim: I pray without...

Peace Pilgrim: I pray without...

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can...

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Charlotte Bunch: Feminism is an...

Charlotte Bunch: Feminism is an...

Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues.

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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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Peggy Noonan: Part of courage...

Peggy Noonan: Part of courage...

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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