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Julia Ward Howe: Every life has...

Julia Ward Howe: Every life has...

Every life has its actual blanks, which the ideal must fill up, or which else remain bare and profitless...

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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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Eileen Caddy: Set your sights...

Eileen Caddy: Set your sights...

Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right...

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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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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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Gloria Steinem: Power can be...

Gloria Steinem: Power can be...

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

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Florence Nightingale: Were there none...

Florence Nightingale: Were there none...

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything...

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Agatha Christie: I didn't want...

Agatha Christie: I didn't want...

I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing...

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Margery Allingham: Self-satisfaction is the...

Margery Allingham: Self-satisfaction is the...

Self-satisfaction is the state of mind of those who have the happy conviction that they are not as other...

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Dorothy Gilman: The best things...

Dorothy Gilman: The best things...

The best things arrive on time.

Source: A New Kind of Country, 1978.
-- Dorothy...

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Harper Lee: The one thing...

Harper Lee: The one thing...

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

Source:...

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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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Ann Richards: I have very...

Ann Richards: I have very...

I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look...

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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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Joan L Curcio: Advances are made...

Joan L Curcio: Advances are made...

Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can...

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bell hooks: It is crucial...

bell hooks: It is crucial...

It is crucial for the future of the Black liberation struggle that we remain ever mindful that ours is a shared...

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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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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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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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Rose Elizabeth Bird: It's always the...

Rose Elizabeth Bird: It's always the...

It's always the minorities who aren't a part of the mainstream who define what the limits . . . of the majority are...

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