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Sydney Biddle Barrows: I was naughty....

Sydney Biddle Barrows: I was naughty....

I was naughty. I wasn't bad. Bad is hurting people, doing evil. Naughty is not hurting anyone. Naughty is being...

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Katharine Graham: If one is...

Katharine Graham: If one is...

If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood.

Source: In The...

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Emily Post: To do exactly...

Emily Post: To do exactly...

To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.

Source: Etiquette,...

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Sarah Caldwell: Success is important...

Sarah Caldwell: Success is important...

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to...

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Maria Callas: When music fails...

Maria Callas: When music fails...

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it had missed the...

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Beverly Sills: You may be...

Beverly Sills: You may be...

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

Source:...

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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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Sojourner Truth: Those are the...

Sojourner Truth: Those are the...

Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see...

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Barbara Deming: A great many...

Barbara Deming: A great many...

A great many of us [must] move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of...

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Andrea Dworkin: We as women...

Andrea Dworkin: We as women...

We as women know that there are no disembodied processes; that all history originates in human flesh; that all...

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Barbara Ehrenreich: We who officially...

Barbara Ehrenreich: We who officially...

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the...

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Ethel Percy Andrus: The human contribution...

Ethel Percy Andrus: The human contribution...

The human contribution is the essential ingredient.

Source: In The Last Word - A...

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Sally Kempton: I became a...

Sally Kempton: I became a...

I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist.

Source: Cutting...

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Babe Didrikson Zaharias: It's not just...

Babe Didrikson Zaharias: It's not just...

It's not just enough to swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and let 'er...

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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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Diane Trilling: Pleasure was not...

Diane Trilling: Pleasure was not...

Pleasure was not the principle of our home. I learned early in life that to laugh before breakfast was to cry before...

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Margot Asquith: There are big...

Margot Asquith: There are big...

There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult...

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Margot Asquith: If Kitchener was...

Margot Asquith: If Kitchener was...

If Kitchener was not a great man, he was, at least, a great poster.

Source:...

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Indira Gandhi: You must learn...

Indira Gandhi: You must learn...

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.

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Ninon de Lenclos: The resistance of...

Ninon de Lenclos: The resistance of...

The resistance of a woman is not always proof of her virtue but more frequently of her...

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