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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Invention, it must...

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Invention, it must...

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of voice, but out of...

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Mary Lyon: Let us forever...

Mary Lyon: Let us forever...

Let us forever forget that every station in life is necessarily that each deserves our respect; that not the station...

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Johnnetta Betsch Cole: The myth of...

Johnnetta Betsch Cole: The myth of...

The myth of black women profiting at the expense of black men is the oldest rap around.

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Frances Perkins: The quality of...

Frances Perkins: The quality of...

The quality of his being one with the people, of having no artificial or natural barriers between him and them, made...

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Frances Perkins: But with the...

Frances Perkins: But with the...

But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan...

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Maria Montessori: The greatness of...

Maria Montessori: The greatness of...

The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. From this almost mystic affirmation there comes...

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Ivy Baker Priest: Any woman who...

Ivy Baker Priest: Any woman who...

Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way of two personalities, like two...

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Golda Meir: Those who don't...

Golda Meir: Those who don't...

Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.

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Corazon Aquino: One must be...

Corazon Aquino: One must be...

One must be frank to be relevant.

Source: Chiding UN for lack of support in...

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Corazon Aquino: All the world...

Corazon Aquino: All the world...

All the world wondered as they witnessed . . . a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest of...

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Mother Teresa: What we are...

Mother Teresa: What we are...

What we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less...

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Florence Scovel Shinn: We cannot always...

Florence Scovel Shinn: We cannot always...

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we...

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Francoise d'Aubigne de Maintenon: Delicacy is to...

Francoise d'Aubigne de Maintenon: Delicacy is to...

Delicacy is to love what grace is to beauty.

Source: In An Uncommon Scold, by Abby...

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Pearl Buck: Sometimes I would...

Pearl Buck: Sometimes I would...

Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a...

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Betty Smith: The difference between...

Betty Smith: The difference between...

The difference between rich and poor is that the poor do everything with their own hands and the rich hire hands to do...

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Eva Peron: Almsgiving leaves a...

Eva Peron: Almsgiving leaves a...

Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect...

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Marguerite de Valois: The more hidden...

Marguerite de Valois: The more hidden...

The more hidden the venom, the more dangerous it is.

Source: Memoirs.
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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: [My mother] speaks...

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: [My mother] speaks...

[My mother] speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same...

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Elizabeth Blackwell: I must have...

Elizabeth Blackwell: I must have...

I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum and prevent this sad...

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Mary Catherine Bateson: The Christian tradition...

Mary Catherine Bateson: The Christian tradition...

The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder...

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