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Ann (and Jane) Taylor: Though man a...

Ann (and Jane) Taylor: Though man a...

Though man a thinking being is defined,
Few use the grand prerogative of mind.
How few think justly of the...

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Charlotte Bronte: Better to be...

Charlotte Bronte: Better to be...

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

Source: The Professor, 1846.
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Anne Bradstreet: Youth is the...

Anne Bradstreet: Youth is the...

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

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Diane Wakoski: Learning to live...

Diane Wakoski: Learning to live...

Learning to live with what you're born with
is the process,
the involvement,
the making of a...

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Harriet Tubman: Yes, John saw...

Harriet Tubman: Yes, John saw...

Yes, John saw de City. Well, what did he see? He saw twelve gates, didn't he? Three of dose gates was on . . . de...

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Sonia Johnson: Language, as symbol,...

Sonia Johnson: Language, as symbol,...

Language, as symbol, determines much of the nature and quality of our experience.

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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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Gloria Steinem: Writing is the...

Gloria Steinem: Writing is the...

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something...

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Anne Frank: One must apply...

Anne Frank: One must apply...

One must apply one's reason to everything here, learning to obey, to shut up, to help, to be good, to give in, and I...

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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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Julia Child: It's so beautifully...

Julia Child: It's so beautifully...

It's so beautifully arranged on the plate -- you know someone's fingers have been all over...

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Helen Keller: Avoiding danger is...

Helen Keller: Avoiding danger is...

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or...

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Dorothy Parker: Byron and Shelley...

Dorothy Parker: Byron and Shelley...

Byron and Shelley and Keats
Were a trio of lyrical treats.


Source: A Pig's-Eye...

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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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Linda Ellerbee: We call them...

Linda Ellerbee: We call them...

We call them twinkies. You've seen them on television acting the news, modeling and fracturing the news while you...

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Marie de Sevigne: It is sometimes...

Marie de Sevigne: It is sometimes...

It is sometimes best to slip over thoughts and not go to the bottom of them.
(Il faut glisser sur les pense?s et ne...

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Maria Weston Chapman: Slavery can only...

Maria Weston Chapman: Slavery can only...

Slavery can only be abolished by raising the character of the people who compose the nation; and that can be done only...

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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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Marge Piercy: A new idea...

Marge Piercy: A new idea...

A new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces
More commonly it's modeled of baling wire and acne.
More...

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Isabelle Eberhardt: The farther behind...

Isabelle Eberhardt: The farther behind...

The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.

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