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Joanna Field: I began to...

Joanna Field: I began to...

I began to have an idea of my life, not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the...

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Mary Catherine Bateson: There are few...

Mary Catherine Bateson: There are few...

There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.

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Nannie Burroughs: We specialize in...

Nannie Burroughs: We specialize in...

We specialize in the wholly impossible.

Source: Motto of the National Training...

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Dinah Mulock Craik: Keep what is...

Dinah Mulock Craik: Keep what is...

Keep what is worth keeping --
And with the breath of kindness
Blow the rest away.


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Toni Morrison: Bryn Mawr had...

Toni Morrison: Bryn Mawr had...

Bryn Mawr had done what a four-year dose of liberal education was designed to do: unfit her for eighty per cent of...

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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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Barbara Bush: I'm not saying...

Barbara Bush: I'm not saying...

I'm not saying to be happy you must be married. Nor am I saying that to be happy you need children. I'm saying that...

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Martha Wright Griffiths: It is a...

Martha Wright Griffiths: It is a...

It is a different world and they [the Supreme Court] should speak for justice, not prejudice.... I seek justice, not...

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Rose Elizabeth Bird: My role isn't...

Rose Elizabeth Bird: My role isn't...

My role isn't to be politically smart. My role is to do what's right under the constitution. And if that's politically...

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Elizabeth Gould Davis: Men insist that...

Elizabeth Gould Davis: Men insist that...

Men insist that they don't mind women succeeding so long as they retain their femininity. Yet the qualities that men...

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Colette: Look for a...

Colette: Look for a...

Look for a long time at what pleases you, and for a longer time at what pains you.

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Margot Asquith: The capacity to...

Margot Asquith: The capacity to...

The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.

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Dorothy L Sayers: There certainly does...

Dorothy L Sayers: There certainly does...

There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will...

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Jessamyn West: Nothing is so...

Jessamyn West: Nothing is so...

Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.

Source: The Life I Really Lived,...

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Erica Jong: Everyone has talent....

Erica Jong: Everyone has talent....

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark places where it...

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Rachel Field: There was no...

Rachel Field: There was no...

There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities...

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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.


Source:...

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Alice Roosevelt Longworth: My father always...

Alice Roosevelt Longworth: My father always...

My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every...

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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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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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