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Anna Julia Cooper: It these broken...

Anna Julia Cooper: It these broken...

It these broken utterances can in any way help to a clearer vision and a truer pulse-beat in studying the Nation's...

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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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Diane Ravitch: The person who...

Diane Ravitch: The person who...

The person who knows how will always have a job. The person who knows why will always be his...

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Maria Montessori: Discipline must come...

Maria Montessori: Discipline must come...

Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been...

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Carol Moseley-Braun: It's hard to...

Carol Moseley-Braun: It's hard to...

It's hard to be the first. It's almost as if I'm subject to a different level of...

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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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Mary McLeod Bethune: From the first,...

Mary McLeod Bethune: From the first,...

From the first, I made my learning, what little it was, useful every way I could.

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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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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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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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Rosalyn Sussman Yalow: I have long...

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow: I have long...

I have long felt that the trouble with discrimination is not discrimination per se, but rather that the people who are...

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Sarah Winnemucca: Nobody really knows...

Sarah Winnemucca: Nobody really knows...

Nobody really knows Indians who cheat them and treat them badly.

Source: In Words...

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Rebecca West: The main difference...

Rebecca West: The main difference...

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

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Beatrice Potter Webb: The Inevitability of...

Beatrice Potter Webb: The Inevitability of...

The Inevitability of Gradualness.

Source: Presidential Address, British Labour...

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Gracie Allen: They laughed at...

Gracie Allen: They laughed at...

They laughed at Joan of Arc, but she went right ahead and built it.

Source: In The...

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Brigitte Bardot: I am leaving...

Brigitte Bardot: I am leaving...

I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless...

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Greta Garbo: There are many...

Greta Garbo: There are many...

There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows,...

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Mary Todd Lincoln: [O]thers live on...

Mary Todd Lincoln: [O]thers live on...

[O]thers live on in a careless and lukewarm state -- not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: Into each life, some...

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Marianne Williamson: Joy is what...

Marianne Williamson: Joy is what...

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

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Mother Teresa: To keep a...

Mother Teresa: To keep a...

To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.

Source: In Saints Among...

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