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Eleanor Roosevelt: I think, at...

Eleanor Roosevelt: I think, at...

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift...

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Ivy Baker Priest: We women ought...

Ivy Baker Priest: We women ought...

We women ought to put first things first. Why should we mind if men have their faces on the money, as long as we get...

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Indira Gandhi: A nation' s...

Indira Gandhi: A nation' s...

A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from...

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Corazon Aquino: All the world...

Corazon Aquino: All the world...

All the world wondered as they witnessed . . . a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest of...

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Gail Pursell Elliott: What we notice...

Gail Pursell Elliott: What we notice...

What we notice is what resonates with our inner perspective. We tend to overlook what does not connect with our...

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Sandra Day O'Connor: Despite the encouraging...

Sandra Day O'Connor: Despite the encouraging...

Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is...

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Barbara De Angelis: No one is...

Barbara De Angelis: No one is...

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or...

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Meridel Le Sueur: They never die,...

Meridel Le Sueur: They never die,...

They never die, who have the future in them.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations...

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Mary Steichen Calderone: Our children are...

Mary Steichen Calderone: Our children are...

Our children are not going to be just our children they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the...

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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross: People are like...

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross: People are like...

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in,...

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bell hooks: She wants to...

bell hooks: She wants to...

She wants to express herself -- to speak her mind. To them it is just talking back.

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Sylvia Ashton-Warner: I am my...

Sylvia Ashton-Warner: I am my...

I am my own Universe, I my own Professor.

Source: Aug 1941, Myself, 1967.
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Florence Scovel Shinn: We cannot always...

Florence Scovel Shinn: We cannot always...

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we...

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Marianne Williamson: In every community,...

Marianne Williamson: In every community,...

In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the...

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Suzanne K Langer: The secret of...

Suzanne K Langer: The secret of...

The secret of fusion is the fact that the artist's eye sees in nature . . . an inexhaustible wealth of tension,...

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Aimee Semple Mcpherson: We are all...

Aimee Semple Mcpherson: We are all...

We are all making a crown for Jesus out of these daily lives of ours, either a crown of golden, divine love, studded...

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Andrea Dworkin: Feminist art is...

Andrea Dworkin: Feminist art is...

Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise...

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Bonnie Blair: My parents put...

Bonnie Blair: My parents put...

My parents put skates on me at age 2, the way it should be if you're serious, and I've always liked...

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Althea Gibson: I don't want...

Althea Gibson: I don't want...

I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I just want to be reasonably successful and live a normal life with all the...

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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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