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Grace Paley: All that is...

Grace Paley: All that is...

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad, or...

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Robin Morgan: There's something contagious...

Robin Morgan: There's something contagious...

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Source: Sisterhood Is...

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Agnes Repplier: It is not...

Agnes Repplier: It is not...

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling...

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Erma Bombeck: Don't confuse fame...

Erma Bombeck: Don't confuse fame...

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Source:...

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Erma Bombeck: Guilt: the gift...

Erma Bombeck: Guilt: the gift...

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

Source: Quoted by John Skow Time, 2 Jul...

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Jill Johnston: . ....

Jill Johnston: . ....

. . . we as womenfolk can't, as i see it, be all that smug and satisfied about where we're at anyhow until the...

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Emily Dickinson: To multiply the...

Emily Dickinson: To multiply the...

To multiply the harbors does not reduce the sea.

Source: Letter, 1879; in Letters...

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Maureen Duffy: I think basically...

Maureen Duffy: I think basically...

I think basically I just think I want everyone and don't really want anybody.

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Ava Gardner: What's the point?...

Ava Gardner: What's the point?...

What's the point? My face, shall we say, looks lived in.

Source: On not lying about...

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Leontyne Price: If you are...

Leontyne Price: If you are...

If you are going to think black, think positive about it. Don't think down on it, or think it is something in your...

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Katharine Hepburn: The average Hollywood...

Katharine Hepburn: The average Hollywood...

The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an...

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Roseanne Barr: Women complain about...

Roseanne Barr: Women complain about...

Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month I can be...

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Lillian Carter: I love all...

Lillian Carter: I love all...

I love all my children, but some of them I don't like.

Source: In Woman, 9 Apr...

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George Eliot: Would not love...

George Eliot: Would not love...

Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?

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George Eliot: If we had...

George Eliot: If we had...

If we had a keen vision and feeling it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we...

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George Eliot: Ignorant kindness may...

George Eliot: Ignorant kindness may...

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an...

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George Eliot: Human beliefs, like...

George Eliot: Human beliefs, like...

Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.

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Jane Austen: Real solemn history,...

Jane Austen: Real solemn history,...

Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in . . . The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences in...

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Judith Rossner: So often I...

Judith Rossner: So often I...

So often I heard people paying blind obeisance to change as though it had some virtue of its own. Change or we will...

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George Eliot: But the mother's...

George Eliot: But the mother's...

But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love,...

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