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Martha Wright Griffiths: The biggest problem...

Martha Wright Griffiths: The biggest problem...

The biggest problem in politics is that you help some S.O.B. get what he wants and then he throws you out of the...

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Christina of Sweden: Nuns and married...

Christina of Sweden: Nuns and married...

Nuns and married women are equally unhappy, if in different ways.

Source: Maxims,...

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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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Anya Seton: There are many...

Anya Seton: There are many...

There are many trails up the mountain, but in time they all reach the top.

Source:...

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Jane Addams: The new growth...

Jane Addams: The new growth...

The new growth in the plant swelling against the sheath, which at the same time imprisons and protects it, must still...

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Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: Taught from infancy...

Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: Taught from infancy...

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt...

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Peggy Noonan: Part of courage...

Peggy Noonan: Part of courage...

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Anne Frank: Think of all...

Anne Frank: Think of all...

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Source: Diary of a...

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Florence Nightingale: To understand God's...

Florence Nightingale: To understand God's...

To understand God's thoughts, we must study statistics, for these are the measure of His...

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Maya Angelou: Bitterness is like...

Maya Angelou: Bitterness is like...

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all...

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Kate Chopin: I wonder if...

Kate Chopin: I wonder if...

I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of...

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Judith Martin: Honesty has come...

Judith Martin: Honesty has come...

Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting...

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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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Marilyn vos Savant: Skill is successfully...

Marilyn vos Savant: Skill is successfully...

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is...

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Carolyn Heilbrun: . . ....

Carolyn Heilbrun: . . ....

. . . a relationship has a momentum, it must change and develop, and will tend to move toward the point of greatest...

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Marge Piercy: When I work...

Marge Piercy: When I work...

When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting...

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Julia Ward Howe: The strokes of...

Julia Ward Howe: The strokes of...

The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.

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Jane Addams: In his own...

Jane Addams: In his own...

In his own way each man must struggle, lest the moral law become a far-off abstraction utterly separated from his...

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Florida Scott-Maxwell: Life does not...

Florida Scott-Maxwell: Life does not...

Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys...

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Susan Sontag: All. . ....

Susan Sontag: All. . ....

All. . . forms of consensus about great books and perennial problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate eventually...

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