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Ivy Baker Priest: Great opportunities to...

Ivy Baker Priest: Great opportunities to...

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones come daily.

Source:...

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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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Mary McLeod Bethune: There is a...

Mary McLeod Bethune: There is a...

There is a place in God's sun for the youth farthest down who has the vision, the determination, and the courage to...

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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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Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Exciting literature after...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Exciting literature after...

Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive.

Source: The Living of...

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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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Clare Boothe Luce: Lying increases the...

Clare Boothe Luce: Lying increases the...

Lying increases the creative faculties . . . It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature...

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Mary Astell: There is not...

Mary Astell: There is not...

There is not anything so excellent, but some will carp at it. . .

Source: Quoted in...

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Chris Evert Lloyd: You've got to...

Chris Evert Lloyd: You've got to...

You've got to take the initiative and play your game . . . confidence makes the...

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Althea Gibson: No matter what...

Althea Gibson: No matter what...

No matter what accomplishments you achieve, somebody helps you.

Source: In Time, 26...

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Florence Griffith Joyner: I don't look...

Florence Griffith Joyner: I don't look...

I don't look at myself as being famous. I look at myself as an athlete. If the money is there, I'd be happy, but I...

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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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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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Patty Berg: It's a wonderful...

Patty Berg: It's a wonderful...

It's a wonderful day for me, I made it to 80.

Source: On her 80th birthday.
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Bonnie Blair: The sport I...

Bonnie Blair: The sport I...

The sport I love has taken me around the world and shown me many things.

Source: In...

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Mary Baker Eddy: I would no...

Mary Baker Eddy: I would no...

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his...

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Sojourner Truth: [That little man...

Sojourner Truth: [That little man...

[That little man in black says] woman can't have as much rights as man because Christ wasn't a woman. Where did your...

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Anne Frank: Mrs. Van Daan's...

Anne Frank: Mrs. Van Daan's...

Mrs. Van Daan's grizzling is absolutely unbearable; now she can't any longer drive us crazy over the invasion, she...

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St Teresa of Avila: . . ....

St Teresa of Avila: . . ....

. . . about the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don't go by one text...

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St Teresa of Avila: It is true...

St Teresa of Avila: It is true...

It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not be always the same . ....

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