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Nina Simone: How do you...

Nina Simone: How do you...

How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and...

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Wendy Wasserstein: No matter how...

Wendy Wasserstein: No matter how...

No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's...

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Shelagh Delaney: 'There aren't enough...

Shelagh Delaney: 'There aren't enough...

''There aren't enough secrets to go round anymore. Some spies are having to invent secrets in order to earn a...

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Gwendolyn Brooks: We real cool....

Gwendolyn Brooks: We real cool....

We real cool. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin....

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Simone Weil: The work of...

Simone Weil: The work of...

The work of art which I do not make, none other will ever make it.

Source: The...

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Grace Speare: We must realize...

Grace Speare: We must realize...

We must realize that the subconscious mind is the law of action and always expresses what the conscious mind has...

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Peace Pilgrim: One little person,...

Peace Pilgrim: One little person,...

One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make...

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Angelina Grimke: I trust the...

Angelina Grimke: I trust the...

I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor [sic] to children will be deemed the most honorable...

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Sonia Johnson: How desperately we...

Sonia Johnson: How desperately we...

How desperately we wish to maintain our trust in those we love! In the face of everything, we try to find reasons to...

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Betty Friedan: It is easier...

Betty Friedan: It is easier...

It is easier to live life through someone else than to become complete yourself.

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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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Margaret Sanger: Diplomats make it...

Margaret Sanger: Diplomats make it...

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.

Source: Woman and the New...

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Barbara Deming: I learned always...

Barbara Deming: I learned always...

I learned always to trust my own deep sense of what I should do, and not just obediently trust the judgment of others...

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Andrea Dworkin: The common erotic...

Andrea Dworkin: The common erotic...

The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood; this project is...

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Lucretia Mott: Truth for authority,...

Lucretia Mott: Truth for authority,...

Truth for authority, not authority for truth.

Source: Motto, quoted in The Peerless...

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Amelia Earhart: Women must pay...

Amelia Earhart: Women must pay...

Women must pay for everything. . . . They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, But, also, women get more...

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Marie Curie: Life is not...

Marie Curie: Life is not...

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We...

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Harriet Ann Jacobs: Hot weather brings...

Harriet Ann Jacobs: Hot weather brings...

Hot weather brings out snakes and slaveholders, and I like one class of the venomous creatures as little as I do the...

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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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Bonnie Blair: No matter what...

Bonnie Blair: No matter what...

No matter what the competition is, I try to find a goal that day and better that goal.

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