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Eliza Wood Burhans Farnham: Our own theological...

Eliza Wood Burhans Farnham: Our own theological...

Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a...

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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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Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: The beginning is...

Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: The beginning is...

The beginning is always today.

Source: From Journey in Word, ed. Cyndi Craven; an...

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Beryl Markham: In Africa people...

Beryl Markham: In Africa people...

In Africa people learn to serve each other. They live on credit balances of little favors that they give and may, one...

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Judith Martin: Honesty has come...

Judith Martin: Honesty has come...

Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting...

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Helena Petrova Blavatsky: We must prepare...

Helena Petrova Blavatsky: We must prepare...

We must prepare and study truth under every aspect, endeavoring to ignore nothing, if we do not wish to fall into the...

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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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Sonia Johnson: Language, as symbol,...

Sonia Johnson: Language, as symbol,...

Language, as symbol, determines much of the nature and quality of our experience.

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Dorothy Day: I have long...

Dorothy Day: I have long...

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their...

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Gloria Steinem: The first problem...

Gloria Steinem: The first problem...

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

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Angela Davis: What this country...

Angela Davis: What this country...

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Source: Speech, 1967.
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Barbara Ehrenreich: So why do...

Barbara Ehrenreich: So why do...

So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because...

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Anne Frank: One must apply...

Anne Frank: One must apply...

One must apply one's reason to everything here, learning to obey, to shut up, to help, to be good, to give in, and I...

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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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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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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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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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Colette: You will do...

Colette: You will do...

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Natalie Clifford Barney: The advantage of...

Natalie Clifford Barney: The advantage of...

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Source: In...

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Toni Morrison: As you enter...

Toni Morrison: As you enter...

As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.

Source:...

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