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Amelia Earhart: There is so...

Amelia Earhart: There is so...

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

Source: In...

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Marie Curie: One never notices...

Marie Curie: One never notices...

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done . . .

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Charlotte Bunch: If you think...

Charlotte Bunch: If you think...

If you think that you are where you are just because you worked hard, it is easy to become self-righteous and make...

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Edith Hamilton: To be able...

Edith Hamilton: To be able...

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is being educated.

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Grace Murray Hopper: From then on,...

Grace Murray Hopper: From then on,...

From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.

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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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Zelda Fitzgerald: It is the...

Zelda Fitzgerald: It is the...

It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Anne Sullivan: I am beginning...

Anne Sullivan: I am beginning...

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the...

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Mary Lyon: Let us forever...

Mary Lyon: Let us forever...

Let us forever forget that every station in life is necessarily that each deserves our respect; that not the station...

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Freda Adler: The Rubicons which...

Freda Adler: The Rubicons which...

The Rubicons which women must cross, the sex barriers which they must breach, are ultimately those that exist in the...

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Maria Montessori: If education is...

Maria Montessori: If education is...

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is...

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Marjorie Rosen: Women's films [in...

Marjorie Rosen: Women's films [in...

Women's films [in the fiftiesl became howto's on catching and keeping a man. Veneer. Appearance. Sex Appeal. Hollywood...

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Katharine Hepburn: I can remember...

Katharine Hepburn: I can remember...

I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the...

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Tallulah Bankhead: I have been...

Tallulah Bankhead: I have been...

I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free...

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Nikki Giovanni: A white face...

Nikki Giovanni: A white face...

A white face goes with a white mind. Occasionally a black face goes with a white mind. Very seldom a white face will...

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Greta Garbo: Is there anything...

Greta Garbo: Is there anything...

Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within...

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Greta Garbo: I never said,...

Greta Garbo: I never said,...

I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the...

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Nellie Melba: My voice has...

Nellie Melba: My voice has...

My voice has been raised not only in song, but to make the big world outside through me, understand something of the...

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Catherine the Great: I am one...

Catherine the Great: I am one...

I am one of the people who love the why of things.

Source: Letter, 20 Jan...

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Abigail Adams: [A]rbitrary power is...

Abigail Adams: [A]rbitrary power is...

[A]rbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken . ....

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