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Althea Gibson: In sports, you...

Althea Gibson: In sports, you...

In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it...

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Martina Navratilova: I hope, when...

Martina Navratilova: I hope, when...

I hope, when I stop, people will think that somehow I mattered.

Source: In...

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Marie Curie: I was taught...

Marie Curie: I was taught...

I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.

Source: In Words...

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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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Anne Hutchinson: I feel that...

Anne Hutchinson: I feel that...

I feel that nothing important ever happens that is not revealed to me beforehand.

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Aimee Semple Mcpherson: O Hope! dazzling,...

Aimee Semple Mcpherson: O Hope! dazzling,...

O Hope! dazzling, radiant Hope! -- What a change thou bringest to the hopeless; brightening the darkened paths, and...

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Charleszetta Waddles: You don't have...

Charleszetta Waddles: You don't have...

You don't have to look poor, you know, you don't have to look down. For money is a medium of exchange, and that's all;...

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Sonia Johnson: I am a...

Sonia Johnson: I am a...

I am a warrior in the time of women warriors; the longing for justice is the sword I carry,...

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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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Barbara Deming: I think the...

Barbara Deming: I think the...

I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision. . . is one that abandons the concept of naming...

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Barbara Deming: Nonviolent actions does...

Barbara Deming: Nonviolent actions does...

Nonviolent actions does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their...

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Pauline Kael: I believe that...

Pauline Kael: I believe that...

I believe that we respond most and best to work in any art form (and to other experience as well) if we are...

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Sarah Bernhardt: The truth, the...

Sarah Bernhardt: The truth, the...

The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily...

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Harriet Monroe: Surely the vogue...

Harriet Monroe: Surely the vogue...

Surely the vogue of those twisted and contorted human figures must be as short as it is...

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Louise A Bogan: Women have no...

Louise A Bogan: Women have no...

Women have no wilderness in them
They are provident instead
Content in the tight hot cell of their hearts
To...

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Emily Dickinson: I . ....

Emily Dickinson: I . ....

I . . . am small, like the wren, and my hair is bold like the chestnut burr; and my eyes like the sherry in the glass...

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Rosalynn Carter: If you don't...

Rosalynn Carter: If you don't...

If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try -- you...

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Barbara Bush: Cherish your human...

Barbara Bush: Cherish your human...

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

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Grandma Moses: I don't advise...

Grandma Moses: I don't advise...

I don't advise any one to take it up as a business proposition, unless they really have talent, and are crippled so as...

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Louise Nevelson: What we call...

Louise Nevelson: What we call...

What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more...

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