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Barbara De Angelis: If you aren't...

Barbara De Angelis: If you aren't...

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and...

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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: Love is the...

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: Love is the...

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an...

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Jane Austen: One cannot be...

Jane Austen: One cannot be...

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

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Barbara Bush: Some people give...

Barbara Bush: Some people give...

Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life's blood . . . but...

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Eleanor Roosevelt: I used to...

Eleanor Roosevelt: I used to...

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me understand something, it would be clear to all the other people in...

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Margaret Thatcher: Why do you...

Margaret Thatcher: Why do you...

Why do you climb philosophical hills? Because they are worth climbing . . . There are no hills to go down unless you...

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Nancy Astor: Real education should...

Nancy Astor: Real education should...

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all...

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Nancy Astor: The main dangers...

Nancy Astor: The main dangers...

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything -- or nothing.

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Sojourner Truth: I am not...

Sojourner Truth: I am not...

I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.

Source: c. 1883, in...

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Dorothy Height: We've got to...

Dorothy Height: We've got to...

We've got to work to save our children and do it with full respect for the fact that if we do not, no one else is...

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Barbara Deming: We learn best...

Barbara Deming: We learn best...

We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women -- whose stories, for...

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Barbara Deming: Vengeance is not...

Barbara Deming: Vengeance is not...

Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most [people's] minds the thought of victory and the...

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Jeanne-Marie Roland: People who know...

Jeanne-Marie Roland: People who know...

People who know how to employ themselves, always find leisure moments, while those who do nothing are forever in a...

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Mary Church Terrell: To the lack...

Mary Church Terrell: To the lack...

To the lack of incentive to effort, which is the awful shadow under which we live, may be traced the wreck and ruin of...

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Babe Didrikson Zaharias: Before I was...

Babe Didrikson Zaharias: Before I was...

Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the greatest...

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Beryl Markham: In Africa people...

Beryl Markham: In Africa people...

In Africa people learn to serve each other. They live on credit balances of little favors that they give and may, one...

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Deborah Tannen: We all know...

Deborah Tannen: We all know...

We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of...

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Kate Chopin: And moreover, to...

Kate Chopin: And moreover, to...

And moreover, to succeed, the artist must possess the courageous soul . . . the brave soul. The soul that dares and...

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Helena Petrova Blavatsky: We live in...

Helena Petrova Blavatsky: We live in...

We live in an age of prejudice, dissimulation and paradox, wherein, like dry leaves caught in a whirlpool, some of us...

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Georgia O'Keeffe: Before I put...

Georgia O'Keeffe: Before I put...

Before I put a brush to canvas, I question, Is this mine? . . . Is it influenced by some idea which I have acquired...

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