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Toni Morrison: As you enter...

Toni Morrison: As you enter...

As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.

Source:...

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Dorothy Height: The black woman...

Dorothy Height: The black woman...

The black woman had had to struggle against being a person of great strength.

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Coretta Scott King: I'm fulfilled in...

Coretta Scott King: I'm fulfilled in...

I'm fulfilled in what I do. . . I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes -- the finer things of life --...

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Anna Jameson: All my experience...

Anna Jameson: All my experience...

All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a...

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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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Olympia Brown: The Old Testament...

Olympia Brown: The Old Testament...

The Old Testament teems with prophecies of the Messiah, but nowhere is it intimated that that Messiah is to stand as a...

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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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Colette Dowling: Relationships are like...

Colette Dowling: Relationships are like...

Relationships are like a dance, with visible energy racing back and forth between partners. Some relationships are the...

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Anne Frank: Just imagine how...

Anne Frank: Just imagine how...

Just imagine how interesting it would be if I were to publish a romance of the Secret Annexe. The title alone would be...

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Shirley Conran: First things first,...

Shirley Conran: First things first,...

First things first, second things never.

Source: Superwomen, How to be a Working...

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Simone Signoret: Nostalgia isn't what...

Simone Signoret: Nostalgia isn't what...

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Simone Signoret: He bore no...

Simone Signoret: He bore no...

He bore no grudge against those he had wronged.

Source: On film executive Jack L....

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Gloria Vanderbilt: I've always believed...

Gloria Vanderbilt: I've always believed...

I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.

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Georgia O'Keeffe: I had to...

Georgia O'Keeffe: I had to...

I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it.

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Berenice Abbott: Photography helps people...

Berenice Abbott: Photography helps people...

Photography helps people to see.

Source: In Berenice Abbott: An American Matter,...

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Joyce A Myers: A BMW can't...

Joyce A Myers: A BMW can't...

A BMW can't take you as far as a diploma.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for...

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Rosabeth Moss Kanter: Too many people...

Rosabeth Moss Kanter: Too many people...

Too many people let others stand in their way and don't go back for one more try.

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Susan RoAne: They say, You...

Susan RoAne: They say, You...

They say, You can't give a smile away; it always comes back. The same is true of a kind word or a conversation...

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Katharine Graham: A mistake is...

Katharine Graham: A mistake is...

A mistake is simply another way of doing things.

Source: In The Manager's Book of...

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Louise Brooks: Every actor has...

Louise Brooks: Every actor has...

Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or...

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