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Eva Peron: Charity separates the...

Eva Peron: Charity separates the...

Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the...

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Mary Robinson: I was elected...

Mary Robinson: I was elected...

I was elected by the women of Ireland, who instead of rocking the cradle, rocked the...

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Ella T Grasso: I'm opposed to...

Ella T Grasso: I'm opposed to...

I'm opposed to abortion because I happen to believe that life deserves the protection of...

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Ann Richards: I believe in...

Ann Richards: I believe in...

I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you...

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Elizabeth II: Let us not...

Elizabeth II: Let us not...

Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

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Nancy Astor: A fool without...

Nancy Astor: A fool without...

A fool without fear is sometimes wiser than an angel with fear.

Source: My Two...

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Nancy Astor: I refuse to...

Nancy Astor: I refuse to...

I refuse to admit I'm more than fifty-two even if that does make my sons illegitimate.

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Margot Asquith: No one ever...

Margot Asquith: No one ever...

No one ever pruned me. If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days,...

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Margery Allingham: Self-satisfaction is the...

Margery Allingham: Self-satisfaction is the...

Self-satisfaction is the state of mind of those who have the happy conviction that they are not as other...

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Hannah Arendt: To be sure,...

Hannah Arendt: To be sure,...

To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities. . . than a rigorously enforced divorce...

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Iris Murdoch: All artists dream...

Iris Murdoch: All artists dream...

All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to...

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Natalia Ginzburg: Every day silence...

Natalia Ginzburg: Every day silence...

Every day silence harvests its victims. Silence is a mortal illness.

Source: The...

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Maria Weston Chapman: Grudge no expense...

Maria Weston Chapman: Grudge no expense...

Grudge no expense -- yield to no opposition -- forget fatigue -- till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the...

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Maggie Kuhn: Power should not...

Maggie Kuhn: Power should not...

Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so...

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Rosa Parks: It was not...

Rosa Parks: It was not...

It was not pre-arranged. It just happened that the driver made and demand and I just didn't feel like obeying his...

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Virginia Woolf: My own brain...

Virginia Woolf: My own brain...

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery --always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then...

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Mary Harris Mother Jones: I am not...

Mary Harris Mother Jones: I am not...

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I...

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Erma Bombeck: The suburbs were...

Erma Bombeck: The suburbs were...

The suburbs were discovered, quite by accident, one day in the early 1940's by a Welcome Wagon lady who was...

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Helen Keller: The most pathetic...

Helen Keller: The most pathetic...

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but has no vision.

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Dorothy Parker: Why is it...

Dorothy Parker: Why is it...

Why is it no one ever sent me yet
One perfect limousine, do you suppose?
Ah no, it's always just my luck to...

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