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Maria Montessori: Discipline must come...

Maria Montessori: Discipline must come...

Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been...

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Diane Ravitch: The person who...

Diane Ravitch: The person who...

The person who knows how will always have a job. The person who knows why will always be his...

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Mary McLeod Bethune: If we have...

Mary McLeod Bethune: If we have...

If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we...

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Corazon Aquino: You have spent...

Corazon Aquino: You have spent...

You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here...

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Carol Moseley-Braun: If I lose,...

Carol Moseley-Braun: If I lose,...

If I lose, I'm going to retire from politics, practice law, and wear bright leather pants.

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Dianne Feinstein: Women have begun...

Dianne Feinstein: Women have begun...

Women have begun to see that if I go through that doorway, I take everybody through it.

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Queen Victoria: The important thing...

Queen Victoria: The important thing...

The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

Source:...

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Gail Pursell Elliott: We create our...

Gail Pursell Elliott: We create our...

We create our own destiny with our choices and decisions. We can base these decisions upon the awareness of our inner...

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Sandra Day O'Connor: The more education...

Sandra Day O'Connor: The more education...

The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same...

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Amelia Earhart: Obviously I faced...

Amelia Earhart: Obviously I faced...

Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really...

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Charleszetta Waddles: . ....

Charleszetta Waddles: . ....

. . . I believe that you cannot go any further than you can think. I certainly believe if you don't desire a thing,...

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Mary Astell: Women are not...

Mary Astell: Women are not...

Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their chains,...

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Hannah Arendt: The ceaseless, senseless...

Hannah Arendt: The ceaseless, senseless...

The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible,...

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Han Suyin: There is nothing...

Han Suyin: There is nothing...

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.

Source: A Many Spendored...

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Margaret Thatcher: I'm extraordinarily patient...

Margaret Thatcher: I'm extraordinarily patient...

I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.

Source: In...

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Carol Moseley-Braun: It's hard to...

Carol Moseley-Braun: It's hard to...

It's hard to be the first. It's almost as if I'm subject to a different level of...

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Anne Wilson Schaef: Differences challenge assumptions....

Anne Wilson Schaef: Differences challenge assumptions....

Differences challenge assumptions.

Source: Women's Reality, 1981.
-- Anne Wilson...

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Brigitte Bardot: I am leaving...

Brigitte Bardot: I am leaving...

I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless...

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Greta Garbo: There are many...

Greta Garbo: There are many...

There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows,...

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Michelle Pfeiffer: For me, getting...

Michelle Pfeiffer: For me, getting...

For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard -- that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of...

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