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Chris Evert Lloyd: Ninety percent of...

Chris Evert Lloyd: Ninety percent of...

Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far.

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Billie Jean King: It's really impossible...

Billie Jean King: It's really impossible...

It's really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you're a child, still playing a game. But on the...

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Marie Curie: Be less curious...

Marie Curie: Be less curious...

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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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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Chris Evert Lloyd: I realized that...

Chris Evert Lloyd: I realized that...

I realized that with hard work, the world was your oyster. You could do anything you wanted to do. I learned that at a...

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Chris Evert Lloyd: Now that I'm...

Chris Evert Lloyd: Now that I'm...

Now that I'm losing some, I can see how tough I was -- the killer instinct, the single-mindedness, playing like a...

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Ella Baker: The major job...

Ella Baker: The major job...

The major job was getting people to understand that they had something within their power that they could use, and it...

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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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Etty Hillesum: I would ....

Etty Hillesum: I would ....

I would . . . be so exhausted by my determination that I had no strength left to do the actual...

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Patricia Meyer Spacks: Like the adolescent,...

Patricia Meyer Spacks: Like the adolescent,...

Like the adolescent, the artist is a dreamer and a revolutionary; like the adolescent, he often finds his...

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Patricia Meyer Spacks: The vanity of...

Patricia Meyer Spacks: The vanity of...

The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior...

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Francoise d'Aubigne de Maintenon: Delicacy is to...

Francoise d'Aubigne de Maintenon: Delicacy is to...

Delicacy is to love what grace is to beauty.

Source: In An Uncommon Scold, by Abby...

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Flannery O'Connor: Conviction without experience...

Flannery O'Connor: Conviction without experience...

Conviction without experience makes for harshness.

Source: The Habit of Being,...

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Invention, it must...

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Invention, it must...

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of voice, but out of...

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Shirley Hufstedler: The rhythm of...

Shirley Hufstedler: The rhythm of...

The rhythm of life is intricate but orderly, tenacious but fragile. To keep that in mind is to build the key to...

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Eleanor Holmes Norton: The only way...

Eleanor Holmes Norton: The only way...

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree...

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Ivy Baker Priest: Any woman who...

Ivy Baker Priest: Any woman who...

Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way of two personalities, like two...

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Mary Frances Berry: My teachers treated...

Mary Frances Berry: My teachers treated...

My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.

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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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Martha Wright Griffiths: My grandmother wanted...

Martha Wright Griffiths: My grandmother wanted...

My grandmother wanted to live long enough to vote for a woman president. I'll be satisfied if I live to see a woman go...

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