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Frances Perkins: In America, public...

Frances Perkins: In America, public...

In America, public opinion is the leader.

Source: People at Work, Sec. I,...

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Eleanor Roosevelt: No one can...

Eleanor Roosevelt: No one can...

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Source: This is My Story,...

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Ella T Grasso: I keep my...

Ella T Grasso: I keep my...

I keep my campaign promises, but I never promised to wear stockings.

Source: In...

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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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Marguerite de Valois: It is the...

Marguerite de Valois: It is the...

It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Source:...

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Elizabeth II: It is easy...

Elizabeth II: It is easy...

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular...

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Nancy Astor: The penalty of...

Nancy Astor: The penalty of...

The penalty of success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.

Source:...

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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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Louisa May Alcott: Talent isn't genius...

Louisa May Alcott: Talent isn't genius...

Talent isn't genius and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace...

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Tillie Olsen: I could not...

Tillie Olsen: I could not...

I could not live by literature if only to begin with, because of the slow maturing of my work and its special...

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Judith Krantz: It's that or...

Judith Krantz: It's that or...

It's that or get fat again, she told herself, as she . . . searched the windows for new merchandise. The thrill was in...

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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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Gloria Naylor: One should be...

Gloria Naylor: One should be...

One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire...

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Djuna Barnes: After all, it...

Djuna Barnes: After all, it...

After all, it is not where one washes one's neck that counts but where one moistens one's...

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Anne Tyler: While armchair travelers...

Anne Tyler: While armchair travelers...

While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.

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Gail Godwin: Dreams say what...

Gail Godwin: Dreams say what...

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

Source: Dream...

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Eva Peron: If I fall,...

Eva Peron: If I fall,...

If I fall, look out for the crash. There won't be anyone left standing.

Source:...

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Queen Mother Elizabeth: It has always...

Queen Mother Elizabeth: It has always...

It has always frightened me that people should love her so much.

Source: Of her...

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Hannah Arendt: To be sure,...

Hannah Arendt: To be sure,...

To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities. . . than a rigorously enforced divorce...

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Hannah Arendt: The earth is...

Hannah Arendt: The earth is...

The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

Source: The Human...

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