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Ivy Baker Priest: Great opportunities to...

Ivy Baker Priest: Great opportunities to...

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones come daily.

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Barbara Deming: The longer we...

Barbara Deming: The longer we...

The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That...

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Jane Addams: I do not...

Jane Addams: I do not...

I do not believe that women are better than men. We have not wrecked railroads, nor corrupted legislature, nor done...

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Amelia Earhart: The effect of...

Amelia Earhart: The effect of...

The effect of having other interests beyond those domestic works well. The more one does and sees and feels, the more...

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Deborah Tannen: It's our tendency...

Deborah Tannen: It's our tendency...

It's our tendency to approach every problem as if it were a fight between two sides. We see it in headlines that are...

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Anita Brookner: Great writers are...

Anita Brookner: Great writers are...

Great writers are the saints for the godless.

Source: Novelists in Interview (ed....

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Virginia Woolf: On the outskirts...

Virginia Woolf: On the outskirts...

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

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Andrea Dworkin: A commitment to...

Andrea Dworkin: A commitment to...

A commitment to sexual equality with males. . . is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist...

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Victoria Claffin Woodhull: I have an...

Victoria Claffin Woodhull: I have an...

I have an inalienable constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or as short a period as I...

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Mary Church Terrell: While most girls...

Mary Church Terrell: While most girls...

While most girls run away from home to marry, I ran away to teach.

Source: A...

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Rachel Carson: If a child...

Rachel Carson: If a child...

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share...

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Millicent Fenwick: Never feel self-pity,...

Millicent Fenwick: Never feel self-pity,...

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage...

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Brigitte Bardot: If we don't...

Brigitte Bardot: If we don't...

If we don't get an answer, we will, strengthened by the support we receive, try to overthrow the...

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Cornelia Otis Skinner: [T]he food choice...

Cornelia Otis Skinner: [T]he food choice...

[T]he food choice of others is becoming more and more heatedly exclusive until it may well turn into one of those...

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Martha Wright Griffiths: My grandmother wanted...

Martha Wright Griffiths: My grandmother wanted...

My grandmother wanted to live long enough to vote for a woman president. I'll be satisfied if I live to see a woman go...

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Shirley Chisholm: There is little...

Shirley Chisholm: There is little...

There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. ...

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Queen Victoria: I would venture...

Queen Victoria: I would venture...

I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little...

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Christina of Sweden: Fools are more...

Christina of Sweden: Fools are more...

Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.

Source: Maxims, 1660-1680, in Pensees...

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Ruth Benedict: It is strange...

Ruth Benedict: It is strange...

It is strange how we rebel against a platitude until suddenly in a different lingo it looms up again as the only...

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Carter Heyward: I'm a priest,...

Carter Heyward: I'm a priest,...

I'm a priest, not a priestess. Priestess implies mumbo jumbo and all sorts of pagan goings-on. Those who oppose us...

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