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Bella Abzug: The test for...

Bella Abzug: The test for...

The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your...

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Bella Abzug: The establishment is...

Bella Abzug: The establishment is...

The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.

Source: In Bella!, by...

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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: A religious life...

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: A religious life...

A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Mary Renault: The perpetual stream...

Mary Renault: The perpetual stream...

The perpetual stream of human nature is formed into ever-changing shallows, eddies, falls and pools by the land over...

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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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Barbara Jordan: There is no...

Barbara Jordan: There is no...

There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and...

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Ella T Grasso: I am having...

Ella T Grasso: I am having...

I am having trouble managing the mansion. What I need is a wife.

Source: In Quotes...

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Edith Clara Summerskill: Today, literate people...

Edith Clara Summerskill: Today, literate people...

Today, literate people of the space age, in well-populated countries, are not prepared to accept taboos without...

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Christina of Sweden: It is necessary...

Christina of Sweden: It is necessary...

It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as...

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Christina of Sweden: Nuns and married...

Christina of Sweden: Nuns and married...

Nuns and married women are equally unhappy, if in different ways.

Source: Maxims,...

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Florence Scovel Shinn: If one is...

Florence Scovel Shinn: If one is...

If one is willing to do a thing he is afraid to do, he does not have to . . . face a situation fearlessly, and [if]...

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St Teresa of Avila: How is it,...

St Teresa of Avila: How is it,...

How is it, Lord, that we are cowards in everything save in opposing Thee?

Source:...

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Mary Wortley Montagu: It was formerly...

Mary Wortley Montagu: It was formerly...

It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided...

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Dorothy Gilman: The best things...

Dorothy Gilman: The best things...

The best things arrive on time.

Source: A New Kind of Country, 1978.
-- Dorothy...

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Edna Ferber: I think that...

Edna Ferber: I think that...

I think that in order to write really well and convincingly, one must he somewhat poisoned by emotion. Dislike,...

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Jane Harrison: Marriage, for a...

Jane Harrison: Marriage, for a...

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and...

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Catharine Esther Beecher: As if reasoning...

Catharine Esther Beecher: As if reasoning...

As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is...

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Maggie Kuhn: Power should not...

Maggie Kuhn: Power should not...

Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so...

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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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Julia Child: It's so beautifully...

Julia Child: It's so beautifully...

It's so beautifully arranged on the plate -- you know someone's fingers have been all over...

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