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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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Peg Bracken: The fact is,...

Peg Bracken: The fact is,...

The fact is, the cocktail party has much in its favor. Going to one is a good way of indicating that you're still...

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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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Angelina Grimke: We are commanded...

Angelina Grimke: We are commanded...

We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we...

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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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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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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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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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Miriam Beard: Leisure for reverie,...

Miriam Beard: Leisure for reverie,...

Leisure for reverie, gay or somber, does much to enrich life.

Source: Realism in...

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Louise Nevelson: I think all...

Louise Nevelson: I think all...

I think all great innovations are built on rejections.

Source: Dawns + Dusks,...

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Bernice Fitz-Gibbon: Teenagers travel in...

Bernice Fitz-Gibbon: Teenagers travel in...

Teenagers travel in droves, packs, swarms. . . .To the librarian, they're a gaggle of geese. To the cook, they're a...

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Debbi Fields: What I wanted...

Debbi Fields: What I wanted...

What I wanted was to be allowed to do the thing in the world that I did best -- which I believed then and believe now...

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Joyce A Myers: Life's an open...

Joyce A Myers: Life's an open...

Life's an open book and an education helps you write success stories.

Source: In...

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Mary Kay Ash: If you think...

Mary Kay Ash: If you think...

If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.

Source: In...

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Est?e Lauder: Touch a face....

Est?e Lauder: Touch a face....

Touch a face. Touch a hand. Say, This is for you, this is what I want you, to wear.

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Nikki Giovanni: If you don't...

Nikki Giovanni: If you don't...

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

Source: A...

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Ann (and Jane) Taylor: How pleasant it...

Ann (and Jane) Taylor: How pleasant it...

How pleasant it is, at the end of the day,
No follies to have to repent;
But reflect on the past, and be able to...

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Zora Neale Hurston: There are years...

Zora Neale Hurston: There are years...

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Louise A Bogan: But childhood prolonged,...

Louise A Bogan: But childhood prolonged,...

But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.

Source:...

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Charlotte Bronte: It is vain...

Charlotte Bronte: It is vain...

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it...

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