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Rosalynn Carter: I had already...

Rosalynn Carter: I had already...

I had already learned from more than a decade of political life that I was going to be criticized no matter what I...

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Joanne Woodward: Sexiness wears thin...

Joanne Woodward: Sexiness wears thin...

Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now...

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Ruby Dee: The greatest gift...

Ruby Dee: The greatest gift...

The greatest gift is not being afraid to question.

Source: With Ossie and Ruby:...

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Marilyn Monroe: I don't mind...

Marilyn Monroe: I don't mind...

I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.

Source: The...

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Sophia Loren: Getting ahead in...

Sophia Loren: Getting ahead in...

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent...

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Shirley Temple Black: Make-believe colors the...

Shirley Temple Black: Make-believe colors the...

Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways in science, in...

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Louise Erdrich: It was enough...

Louise Erdrich: It was enough...

It was enough just to sit there without words.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations...

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Dodie Smith: For though he...

Dodie Smith: For though he...

For though he had very little Latin beyond Cave canem, he had, as a young dog, devoured Shakespeare (in a tasty...

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Lorraine Hansberry: [T]here is only...

Lorraine Hansberry: [T]here is only...

[T]here is only one large circle that we march in, around and around, each of us with our own little picture -- in...

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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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Anne Sexton: It doesn't matter...

Anne Sexton: It doesn't matter...

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

Source: The...

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Elizabeth Bishop: The iceberg cuts...

Elizabeth Bishop: The iceberg cuts...

The iceberg cuts its facets from within
Like jewelry from a grave.


Source: The...

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Diane Wakoski: Poems reveal secrets...

Diane Wakoski: Poems reveal secrets...

Poems reveal secrets when they are analyzed. The poet's pleasure in finding ingenious ways to enclose her secrets...

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Georgia O'Keeffe: Where I was...

Georgia O'Keeffe: Where I was...

Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that...

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Dorothy Parker: I had been...

Dorothy Parker: I had been...

I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives' tales about the way men would instantly forsake a beautiful woman to...

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Alice Roosevelt Longworth: If you can't...

Alice Roosevelt Longworth: If you can't...

If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.

Source: Motto...

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Martha Beck: Every instance of...

Martha Beck: Every instance of...

Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really...

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Pauline Kael: In this country...

Pauline Kael: In this country...

In this country we encourage creativity among the mediocre, but real bursting creativity appalls us. We put it down as...

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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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Angela Davis: What this country...

Angela Davis: What this country...

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Source: Speech, 1967.
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