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Betty Friedan: It is easier...

Betty Friedan: It is easier...

It is easier to live life through someone else than to become complete yourself.

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Anita Brookner: Great writers are...

Anita Brookner: Great writers are...

Great writers are the saints for the godless.

Source: Novelists in Interview (ed....

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Corazon Aquino: You have spent...

Corazon Aquino: You have spent...

You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here...

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Ruth Benedict: It is strange...

Ruth Benedict: It is strange...

It is strange how we rebel against a platitude until suddenly in a different lingo it looms up again as the only...

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Shirley Chisholm: There is little...

Shirley Chisholm: There is little...

There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. ...

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Queen Victoria: The important thing...

Queen Victoria: The important thing...

The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

Source:...

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Han Suyin: There is nothing...

Han Suyin: There is nothing...

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.

Source: A Many Spendored...

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Millicent Fenwick: Never feel self-pity,...

Millicent Fenwick: Never feel self-pity,...

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage...

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Brigitte Bardot: If we don't...

Brigitte Bardot: If we don't...

If we don't get an answer, we will, strengthened by the support we receive, try to overthrow the...

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Deborah Tannen: It's our tendency...

Deborah Tannen: It's our tendency...

It's our tendency to approach every problem as if it were a fight between two sides. We see it in headlines that are...

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Mary Astell: Women are not...

Mary Astell: Women are not...

Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their chains,...

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Andrea Dworkin: A commitment to...

Andrea Dworkin: A commitment to...

A commitment to sexual equality with males. . . is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist...

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Jane Addams: I do not...

Jane Addams: I do not...

I do not believe that women are better than men. We have not wrecked railroads, nor corrupted legislature, nor done...

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Rachel Carson: If a child...

Rachel Carson: If a child...

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share...

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Victoria Claffin Woodhull: I have an...

Victoria Claffin Woodhull: I have an...

I have an inalienable constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or as short a period as I...

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Mary Church Terrell: While most girls...

Mary Church Terrell: While most girls...

While most girls run away from home to marry, I ran away to teach.

Source: A...

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Aimee Semple Mcpherson: What is my...

Aimee Semple Mcpherson: What is my...

What is my task? To get the gospel around the world in the shortest possible time to every man and woman and boy and...

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Charleszetta Waddles: . ....

Charleszetta Waddles: . ....

. . . I believe that you cannot go any further than you can think. I certainly believe if you don't desire a thing,...

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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross: I believe that...

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross: I believe that...

I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word,...

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Christina of Sweden: Fools are more...

Christina of Sweden: Fools are more...

Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.

Source: Maxims, 1660-1680, in Pensees...

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