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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: God answers sharp...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: God answers sharp...

God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers,
And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face,
A gauntlet...

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Nelly Sachs: Here and there...

Nelly Sachs: Here and there...

Here and there the lantern of compassion
can be shown to the fish,
where the fishhook is swallowed
or...

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Oprah Winfrey: You can have...

Oprah Winfrey: You can have...

You can have it all. You just can't have it all at one time.

Source: In Ladies Home...

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Jeane Kirkpatrick: History is a...

Jeane Kirkpatrick: History is a...

History is a better guide than good intentions.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Barbara Bush: The winner of...

Barbara Bush: The winner of...

The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal...

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Rachel Donaldson Jackson: Believe me, this...

Rachel Donaldson Jackson: Believe me, this...

Believe me, this country [Florida] has been greatly overrated. One acre of our fine Tennessee land is worth a thousand...

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Kathleen Turner: Being a sex...

Kathleen Turner: Being a sex...

Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know...

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Louise Brooks: There is no...

Louise Brooks: There is no...

There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film...

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Marilyn Monroe: I don't mind...

Marilyn Monroe: I don't mind...

I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.

Source: The...

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Nikki Giovanni: It is not...

Nikki Giovanni: It is not...

It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.

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Nathalie Sarraute: We're swallowed up...

Nathalie Sarraute: We're swallowed up...

We're swallowed up only when we are willing for it to happen.

Source: The...

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Janet Erskine Stuart: In no order...

Janet Erskine Stuart: In no order...

In no order of things is adolescence the time of the simple life.

Source: In 2,715...

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Anne Bradstreet: Thou ill-form,d offspring...

Anne Bradstreet: Thou ill-form,d offspring...

Thou ill-form,d offspring of my feeble brain . . .

Source: From the Author to her...

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Jessye Norman: I am grateful...

Jessye Norman: I am grateful...

I am grateful that my horizons were not narrowed at the outset.

Source: c. 1981; in...

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Louise Erdrich: In our own...

Louise Erdrich: In our own...

In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape, For a short while, our mothers' bodies are...

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Lorraine Hansberry: [T]here is only...

Lorraine Hansberry: [T]here is only...

[T]here is only one large circle that we march in, around and around, each of us with our own little picture -- in...

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Wendy Wasserstein: You're the unfortunate...

Wendy Wasserstein: You're the unfortunate...

You're the unfortunate contradiction in terms -- a serious good person.

Source: The...

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Hannah Cowley: O lord! your...

Hannah Cowley: O lord! your...

O lord! your wise men are the greatest fools upon earth; they reason about their enjoyments, and analyse their...

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Ethel Watts Mumford: A man of...

Ethel Watts Mumford: A man of...

A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.

Source: In Oxford...

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Aphra Behn: Nothing is more...

Aphra Behn: Nothing is more...

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in...

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