Quotations about Running

I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.

-Ruth Benedict

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Most people live...

Most people live...

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

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A woman is...

A woman is...

A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in...

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Worry less about...

Worry less about...

Worry less about what other people think about you, and more about what you think about...

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[My works are]...

[My works are]...

[My works are] an imitation of my own past and present and of my own creative vitality as I experience them in one...

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The average family...

The average family...

The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the...

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Give me your...

Give me your...

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming...

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Women dress alike...

Women dress alike...

Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.

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To open avenues...

To open avenues...

To open avenues to political place and power for all classes of women would cause [the] humble labors of the family...

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Go within every...

Go within every...

Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle...

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Some kind of...

Some kind of...

Some kind of fun lasts longer than others.

Source: Hutton to Bracken, on marriage;...

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It is the...

It is the...

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

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Woman's great mission...

Woman's great mission...

Woman's great mission is to train immature weak, and ignorant creatures to obey the laws of God; the physical, the...

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From the first...

From the first...

From the first day in school until the day I graduated, everyone gave me one hundred plus in art. Well, where do you...

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People come to...

People come to...

People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them.

Source: in WomenSports...

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It is like...

It is like...

It is like what we imagine knowledge to be: dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free, drawn from the cold hard mouth of...

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As if reasoning...

As if reasoning...

As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is...

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Men get opinions...

Men get opinions...

Men get opinions as boys learn to spell,
By reiteration chiefly.


Source: Aurora...

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When I write...

When I write...

When I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it . . . and...

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There are no...

There are no...

There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.

Source: My Life for Beauty, pt. II, ch....

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The poem has...

The poem has...

The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has kinetic force, it sets in...

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