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Sarah Louise Delany: In our dreams,...

Sarah Louise Delany: In our dreams,...

In our dreams, we are always young.

Source: In Words to Make My Dream Children...

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Elizabeth Montagu: Will an intelligent...

Elizabeth Montagu: Will an intelligent...

Will an intelligent spectator not admire the prodigeous structures of Stone-Henge because he does not know by what law...

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Hannah Arendt: To be sure,...

Hannah Arendt: To be sure,...

To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities. . . than a rigorously enforced divorce...

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Barbara De Angelis: What allows us,...

Barbara De Angelis: What allows us,...

What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and...

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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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Paule Marshall: Sometimes a person...

Paule Marshall: Sometimes a person...

Sometimes a person has to go back, really back -- to have a sense, an understanding of all that's gone to make them --...

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Nothing contributes so...

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Nothing contributes so...

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its...

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St Teresa of Avila: I only wish...

St Teresa of Avila: I only wish...

I only wish I could write with both hands, so as not to forget one thing while I am saying...

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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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Maya Angelou: There is no...

Maya Angelou: There is no...

There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you.

Source: From a...

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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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Elizabeth Cady Stanton: The best protection...

Elizabeth Cady Stanton: The best protection...

The best protection any woman can have . . . is courage.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Dorothy Parker: This living, this...

Dorothy Parker: This living, this...

This living, this living, this living
Was never a project of mine.


Source:...

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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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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: If one talks...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: If one talks...

If one talks to more than four people it is an audience, and one cannot really think or exchange thoughts with an...

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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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Margaret Fuller: It is not...

Margaret Fuller: It is not...

It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made...

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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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Mary Astell: . . ....

Mary Astell: . . ....

. . . he who only or chiefly chose for Beauty, will in a little Time find the same Reason for another...

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