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Virginia Woolf: One likes people...

Virginia Woolf: One likes people...

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they...

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Rose Elizabeth Bird: It is easy...

Rose Elizabeth Bird: It is easy...

It is easy to be popular. It is not easy to be just.

Source: In Boston Globe, 25...

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Alice Paul: I always feel...

Alice Paul: I always feel...

I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic. Each of us puts in one little stone, and then you get a great mosaic...

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Bella Abzug: All of the...

Bella Abzug: All of the...

All of the men on my staff can type.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for...

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Hannah Arendt: Poets. . ....

Hannah Arendt: Poets. . ....

Poets. . . are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles...

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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: That past which...

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: That past which...

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past...

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Edith Hamilton: Great art is...

Edith Hamilton: Great art is...

Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that...

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Ruth Westheimer: Don't share your...

Ruth Westheimer: Don't share your...

Don't share your fantasies unless you're sure your partner really wants to hear them.

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Helene Deutsch: After all, the...

Helene Deutsch: After all, the...

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.

Source:...

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Sylvia Ashton-Warner: As the blackness...

Sylvia Ashton-Warner: As the blackness...

As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so...

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Eleanor Roosevelt: What one has...

Eleanor Roosevelt: What one has...

What one has to do usually can be done.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Marguerite de Valois: The more hidden...

Marguerite de Valois: The more hidden...

The more hidden the venom, the more dangerous it is.

Source: Memoirs.
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Florence Scovel Shinn: Intuition is a...

Florence Scovel Shinn: Intuition is a...

Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.

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Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco: It is never...

Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco: It is never...

It is never any good dwelling on goodbyes. It is not the being together it prolongs, it is the...

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Vicki Baum: Fame always brings...

Vicki Baum: Fame always brings...

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

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Joanna Field: I began to...

Joanna Field: I began to...

I began to suggest that thought, which I had always before Iooked on as a cart-horse to be driven, whipped and...

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Doroth?e DeLuzy: We believe at...

Doroth?e DeLuzy: We believe at...

We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad?

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Joan L Curcio: We teach what...

Joan L Curcio: We teach what...

We teach what we learn, and the cycle goes on.

Source: In The Last Word - A...

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Catharine Esther Beecher: How many young...

Catharine Esther Beecher: How many young...

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity...

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bell hooks: Being oppressed means...

bell hooks: Being oppressed means...

Being oppressed means the absence of choices.

Source: Feminist Theory, ch.1,...

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