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Charlotte Bronte: If you are...

Charlotte Bronte: If you are...

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did...

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Shelagh Delaney: Why don't you...

Shelagh Delaney: Why don't you...

Why don't you learn from my mistakes? It takes half your life to learn from your own.

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Since when was...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Since when was...

Since when was genius found respectable?

Source: Aurora Leigh, bk. 6, 1857.
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Lauren Bacall: I used to...

Lauren Bacall: I used to...

I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically...

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Geraldine Chaplin: Drugs are marvelous...

Geraldine Chaplin: Drugs are marvelous...

Drugs are marvelous if you want to escape, but reality is so rich, why escape?

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Didi Conn: It doesn't matter...

Didi Conn: It doesn't matter...

It doesn't matter how your child comes to you. I've never felt such joy and such love. It's the most beautiful...

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Ethel Percy Andrus: Such to me...

Ethel Percy Andrus: Such to me...

Such to me is the new image of aging; growth in self, and service for all mankind.

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Amy Strum Alcott: Concentrate, play your...

Amy Strum Alcott: Concentrate, play your...

Concentrate, play your game, and don't be afraid to win.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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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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Rachel Carson: Every mystery solved...

Rachel Carson: Every mystery solved...

Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.

Source: In...

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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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Grace Speare: Only one thing...

Grace Speare: Only one thing...

Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application -- practice. What you practice is what you...

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Mary Daly: Courage to be...

Mary Daly: Courage to be...

Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.

Source: In...

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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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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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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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Elizabeth Bowen: Experience isn't interesting...

Elizabeth Bowen: Experience isn't interesting...

Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself - in fact, till it does that, it hardly is...

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Hillary Rodham Clinton: What we have...

Hillary Rodham Clinton: What we have...

What we have to do . . . is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our...

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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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Margaret Chase Smith: Moral cowardice that...

Margaret Chase Smith: Moral cowardice that...

Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right...

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