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Jeannette Rankin: You take people...

Jeannette Rankin: You take people...

You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.

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Barbara Ehrenreich: A free-enterprise economy...

Barbara Ehrenreich: A free-enterprise economy...

A free-enterprise economy depends only on markets, and according to the most advanced mathematical macroeconomic...

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Liz Carpenter: What a lot...

Liz Carpenter: What a lot...

What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters! You can't reread a phone call.

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Liz Carpenter: I have worked...

Liz Carpenter: I have worked...

I have worked all my life, wanted to work all my life, needed to work all my life.

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Maya Angelou: Each of us...

Maya Angelou: Each of us...

Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead and . . . if the future road looms...

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Laura Ingalls Wilder: I believe we...

Laura Ingalls Wilder: I believe we...

I believe we would be happier to have a personal revolution in our individual lives and go back to simpler living and...

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Pauline Kael: A mistake in...

Pauline Kael: A mistake in...

A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.

Source:...

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Shana Alexander: The law changes...

Shana Alexander: The law changes...

The law changes and flows like water, and ... the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing...

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Dorothy Uhnak: I like to...

Dorothy Uhnak: I like to...

I like to deliver more than I promise instead of the other way around. Which is just one of my many trade...

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Gloria Evangelina Anzaldua: Voyager, there are...

Gloria Evangelina Anzaldua: Voyager, there are...

Voyager, there are no bridges, one builds them as one walks.

Source: In Words of...

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Catherine Drinker Bowen: Chamber music --...

Catherine Drinker Bowen: Chamber music --...

Chamber music -- a conversation between friends.

Source: In The Last Word - A...

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Minna Thomas Antrim: The drama of...

Minna Thomas Antrim: The drama of...

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Source: Naked Truth and...

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Gretel Ehrlich: There is nothing...

Gretel Ehrlich: There is nothing...

There is nothing in nature that can't be taken as a sign of both morality and...

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Gretel Ehrlich: Leaves are verbs...

Gretel Ehrlich: Leaves are verbs...

Leaves are verbs that conjugate the seasons.

Source: The Solace of Open Spaces,...

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Marjorie Holmes: The man who...

Marjorie Holmes: The man who...

The man who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself.

Source: Love and...

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Grace Paley: There isn't a...

Grace Paley: There isn't a...

There isn't a story written that isn't about blood and money. People and their relationship to each other is the...

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Minna Thomas Antrim: Man proposes, woman...

Minna Thomas Antrim: Man proposes, woman...

Man proposes, woman forecloses.

Source: Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions, (1901,...

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Margaret Anderson: It is rarely...

Margaret Anderson: It is rarely...

It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.

Source: In...

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Adela Rogers St Johns: There is so...

Adela Rogers St Johns: There is so...

There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first.

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Fran Lebowitz: If you are...

Fran Lebowitz: If you are...

If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater. . . suggest that he wear a...

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