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Ella T Grasso: I would not...

Ella T Grasso: I would not...

I would not be President because I do not aspire to be President. But l'm sure that a woman will be President. When? I...

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Queen Victoria: I would venture...

Queen Victoria: I would venture...

I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little...

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Anne Wilson Schaef: Differences challenge assumptions....

Anne Wilson Schaef: Differences challenge assumptions....

Differences challenge assumptions.

Source: Women's Reality, 1981.
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Mary McLeod Bethune: The drums of...

Mary McLeod Bethune: The drums of...

The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl...

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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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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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Marjorie Rosen: Studios, purporting to...

Marjorie Rosen: Studios, purporting to...

Studios, purporting to ease the anguish of Depression reality, transformed movies into the poIitics of fantasy, the...

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Cornelia Otis Skinner: [T]he food choice...

Cornelia Otis Skinner: [T]he food choice...

[T]he food choice of others is becoming more and more heatedly exclusive until it may well turn into one of those...

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Michelle Pfeiffer: For me, getting...

Michelle Pfeiffer: For me, getting...

For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard -- that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of...

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Mary Todd Lincoln: Clouds and darkness...

Mary Todd Lincoln: Clouds and darkness...

Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth...

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Florence Nightingale: The world is...

Florence Nightingale: The world is...

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to...

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Emmeline Pankhurst: Justice and judgment...

Emmeline Pankhurst: Justice and judgment...

Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations...

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Bonnie Blair: I don't remember...

Bonnie Blair: I don't remember...

I don't remember the first time I skated on ice, I was too young. I do remember falling in love with that...

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Rachel Carson: Beginnings are apt...

Rachel Carson: Beginnings are apt...

Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the...

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Mignon McLaughlin: Most of us...

Mignon McLaughlin: Most of us...

Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions.

Source: In...

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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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Anne Sullivan: Obedience is the...

Anne Sullivan: Obedience is the...

Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the...

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Michelle Obama: Your story is...

Michelle Obama: Your story is...

Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.

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Dianne Feinstein: Women have begun...

Dianne Feinstein: Women have begun...

Women have begun to see that if I go through that doorway, I take everybody through it.

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Geraldine Ferraro: I should have...

Geraldine Ferraro: I should have...

I should have had a circuitous answer that was a non-answer.

Source: On initial...

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