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Colette Dowling: I tell you,...

Colette Dowling: I tell you,...

I tell you, the great divide is still with us, the awful split, the Us and Them. Like a rubber band tautened to the...

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Oprah Winfrey: I have crossed...

Oprah Winfrey: I have crossed...

I have crossed over on the backs of Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman and Fannie Lou Hamer and Madame C.J. Walker. ...

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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: When Harvard men...

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: When Harvard men...

When Harvard men say they've graduated from Radcliffe, then we've made it.

Source:...

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Rachel Donaldson Jackson: Believe me, this...

Rachel Donaldson Jackson: Believe me, this...

Believe me, this country [Florida] has been greatly overrated. One acre of our fine Tennessee land is worth a thousand...

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Rachel Donaldson Jackson: I would rather...

Rachel Donaldson Jackson: I would rather...

I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of God than live in that palace at Washington.

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Martha Washington: I very linearly...

Martha Washington: I very linearly...

I very linearly [sic] wish you would exert yourself so as to keep all your matters in order your self without...

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Ann (and Jane) Taylor: Oh, that it...

Ann (and Jane) Taylor: Oh, that it...

Oh, that it were my chief delight
To do the things I ought!
Then let me try with all my might
To mind what I...

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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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Aphra Behn: One hour of...

Aphra Behn: One hour of...

One hour of right-down love
Is worth an age of dully living on.


Source: In An...

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Aphra Behn: There is no...

Aphra Behn: There is no...

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Source: Willmore, in The Rover, act 1, sc....

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Christina Rossetti: I might show...

Christina Rossetti: I might show...

I might show facts as plain as day:
But since your eyes are blind, you'd say,
Where? What? and turn...

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Bette Davis: Without wonder and...

Bette Davis: Without wonder and...

Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.

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Katharine Hepburn: Life's what's important....

Katharine Hepburn: Life's what's important....

Life's what's important. Walking, houses, family. Birth and pain and joy. Acting's just waiting for a custard pie....

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Debra Winger: I push for...

Debra Winger: I push for...

I push for what I think can be the best, and if I feel they're not going for the best, it kills...

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Lynn Fontanne: One reason we...

Lynn Fontanne: One reason we...

One reason we lasted so long is that we usually played two people who were very much in love. As we were realistic...

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Minnie Maddern Fiske: You must make...

Minnie Maddern Fiske: You must make...

You must make your own blunders, must cheerfully accept your own mistakes as part of the scheme of...

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Vera-Ellen: You know, in...

Vera-Ellen: You know, in...

You know, in some ways you're far superior to my cocker spaniel. [Danny Kaye to...

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: God answers sharp...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: God answers sharp...

God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers,
And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face,
A gauntlet...

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Gwendolyn Bennett: Oh, stir the...

Gwendolyn Bennett: Oh, stir the...

Oh, stir the lucid waters of thy sleep
And coin for me a tale
Of happy loves and gems and joyous limbs
And...

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Amy Lowell: Youth condemns; maturity...

Amy Lowell: Youth condemns; maturity...

Youth condemns; maturity condones.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...

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