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Andrea Dworkin: As long as...

Andrea Dworkin: As long as...

As long as there is rape. . . there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going...

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Alice Roosevelt Longworth: I have a...

Alice Roosevelt Longworth: I have a...

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it...

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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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Diane Trilling: Unrecognized alcoholism is...

Diane Trilling: Unrecognized alcoholism is...

Unrecognized alcoholism is the ruling pathology among writers and intellectuals.

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Diane Trilling: Writers are what...

Diane Trilling: Writers are what...

Writers are what they write, also what they fail to write.

Source: In Diana...

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Diane Trilling: There's much to...

Diane Trilling: There's much to...

There's much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it.

Source:...

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Josephine St Pierre Ruffin: [W]e need to...

Josephine St Pierre Ruffin: [W]e need to...

[W]e need to talk over not only those things which are of vital importance to us as women, but also the things that...

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Anna Kournikova: I'm like an...

Anna Kournikova: I'm like an...

I'm like an expensive menu. . . you can look but you can't afford!

Source:
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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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Toni Cade Bambara: The job of...

Toni Cade Bambara: The job of...

The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.

Source: In Famous Black...

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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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Hannah Arendt: The ceaseless, senseless...

Hannah Arendt: The ceaseless, senseless...

The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible,...

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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: That past which...

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: That past which...

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past...

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Margaret Walker: White folks needs...

Margaret Walker: White folks needs...

White folks needs what black folks got just as much as black folks needs what white folks got, and we's all got to...

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Jill Ruckelshaus: The best way...

Jill Ruckelshaus: The best way...

The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right.

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-- Jill...

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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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Margaret Thatcher: Look at a...

Margaret Thatcher: Look at a...

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing. It's...

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Barbara Mikulski: The two-martinis-for-lunch bunch...

Barbara Mikulski: The two-martinis-for-lunch bunch...

The two-martinis-for-lunch bunch would love for us to fight each other over the resources they have made...

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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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Marguerite Yourcenar: The memory of...

Marguerite Yourcenar: The memory of...

The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to...

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