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

-Ruth Benedict

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The one thing...

The one thing...

The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.

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How can you...

How can you...

How can you say luck and chance are the same thing? Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes...

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I live a...

I live a...

I live a day at a time. Each day I look for a kernel of excitement. In the morning, I say: 'What is my exciting thing...

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I am one...

I am one...

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new...

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I look back...

I look back...

I look back on my life a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.

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The pacifists, task...

The pacifists, task...

The pacifists, task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive...

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I took to...

I took to...

I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject is the...

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Eating is not...

Eating is not...

Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to...

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There was a...

There was a...

There was a time when all these things would have passed me by, like the flitting figures of a theatre, sufficient for...

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It terrified me...

It terrified me...

It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally...

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When you come...

When you come...

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

Source: In

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We do not...

We do not...

We do not get paid the exorbitant salaries folk believe, but because of our wealthy reputation we are made to suffer...

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And I've been...

And I've been...

And I've been hurt hurt bad. I might be just twenty-six, but I'm an old woman in disguise twenty-six goin'on...

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I'm not the...

I'm not the...

I'm not the public.

Source: On being told that a store was not open to the...

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If the national...

If the national...

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid...

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[I am] a...

[I am] a...

[I am] a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what...

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Trying to grow...

Trying to grow...

Trying to grow up is hurting, you know. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don't, it hurts...

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The people are...

The people are...

The people are unreal. The flowers are unreal, they don't smell. The fruit is unreal, it doesn't taste of anything....

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Most of man's...

Most of man's...

Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or...

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If you don't...

If you don't...

If you don't learn history accurately, how can you learn?

Source: In First She...

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