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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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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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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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Sojourner Truth: It is the...

Sojourner Truth: It is the...

It is the mind that makes the body.

Source:
-- Sojourner Truth, (Nov 18...

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Maggie Kuhn: Power should not...

Maggie Kuhn: Power should not...

Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so...

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Paule Marshall: A person can...

Paule Marshall: A person can...

A person can run for years but sooner or later he has to take a stand in the place which, for better or worse, he...

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Margaret Walker: Now when you...

Margaret Walker: Now when you...

Now when you hates you shrinks up inside and gets littler and you squeezes your heart tight and you stays so mad...

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Natalia Ginzburg: Every day silence...

Natalia Ginzburg: Every day silence...

Every day silence harvests its victims. Silence is a mortal illness.

Source: The...

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Toni Morrison: The ability of...

Toni Morrison: The ability of...

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the...

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Tillie Olsen: And when is...

Tillie Olsen: And when is...

And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?

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Barbara Jordan: There is no...

Barbara Jordan: There is no...

There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and...

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Shirley Chisholm: At present, our...

Shirley Chisholm: At present, our...

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere...

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Edith Clara Summerskill: Today, literate people...

Edith Clara Summerskill: Today, literate people...

Today, literate people of the space age, in well-populated countries, are not prepared to accept taboos without...

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Margot Asquith: An imitation rough...

Margot Asquith: An imitation rough...

An imitation rough diamond.

Source: As I Remember.
-- Margot Asquith, (Feb 2...

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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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Jane Austen: All the privilege...

Jane Austen: All the privilege...

All the privilege I claim for my own sex . . . is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is...

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Elizabeth Kenny: It is better...

Elizabeth Kenny: It is better...

It is better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

Source: Sister...

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Freda Adler: The type of...

Freda Adler: The type of...

The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its...

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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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