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Lily Tomlin: The best mind-altering...

Lily Tomlin: The best mind-altering...

The best mind-altering drug is truth.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase,...

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Light tomorrow with...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Light tomorrow with...

Light tomorrow with today.

Source: From Kevin Harris' Quotation Collections found...

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Joanna Baillie: What custom hath...

Joanna Baillie: What custom hath...

What custom hath endeared
We part with sadly, tho we prize it not.


Source:...

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Adrienne Rich: We might possess...

Adrienne Rich: We might possess...

We might possess every technological resource . . . but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless,...

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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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Maya Angelou: If one is...

Maya Angelou: If one is...

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

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Eileen Caddy: A human being...

Eileen Caddy: A human being...

A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Rebecca West: Before a war...

Rebecca West: Before a war...

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy. But after a war it seems more like...

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Emmeline Pankhurst: We are here,...

Emmeline Pankhurst: We are here,...

We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become...

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Anne Frank: I regard our...

Anne Frank: I regard our...

I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the...

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Dorothy Parker: Brevity is the...

Dorothy Parker: Brevity is the...

Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

Source: In Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell is...

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Alice Roosevelt Longworth: If you can't...

Alice Roosevelt Longworth: If you can't...

If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.

Source: Motto...

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Helena Petrova Blavatsky: We must prepare...

Helena Petrova Blavatsky: We must prepare...

We must prepare and study truth under every aspect, endeavoring to ignore nothing, if we do not wish to fall into the...

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Liz Smith: To deny we...

Liz Smith: To deny we...

To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.

Source: In...

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Dorothy Parker: This living, this...

Dorothy Parker: This living, this...

This living, this living, this living
Was never a project of mine.


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Helena Petrova Blavatsky: Be humble, if...

Helena Petrova Blavatsky: Be humble, if...

Be humble, if thou would'st attain to Wisdom. Be humbler still, when Wisdom thou hast...

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Marian Wright Edelman: No one, Eleanor...

Marian Wright Edelman: No one, Eleanor...

No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give...

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Sojourner Truth: We do as...

Sojourner Truth: We do as...

We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Margaret Fuller: The especial genius...

Margaret Fuller: The especial genius...

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, and spiritual in...

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Edith Hamilton: The fullness of...

Edith Hamilton: The fullness of...

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.

Source: The Great Age of Greek...

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