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Eileen Caddy: Expect your every...

Eileen Caddy: Expect your every...

Expect your every need to be met. Expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level . ....

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Helen Keller: The most pathetic...

Helen Keller: The most pathetic...

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but has no vision.

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Dorothy Parker: This living, this...

Dorothy Parker: This living, this...

This living, this living, this living
Was never a project of mine.


Source:...

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Dorothy Parker: I had been...

Dorothy Parker: I had been...

I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives' tales about the way men would instantly forsake a beautiful woman to...

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Julia Child: It's so beautifully...

Julia Child: It's so beautifully...

It's so beautifully arranged on the plate -- you know someone's fingers have been all over...

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Dorothy Parker: Byron and Shelley...

Dorothy Parker: Byron and Shelley...

Byron and Shelley and Keats
Were a trio of lyrical treats.


Source: A Pig's-Eye...

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Dorothy Parker: Why is it...

Dorothy Parker: Why is it...

Why is it no one ever sent me yet
One perfect limousine, do you suppose?
Ah no, it's always just my luck to...

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Barbara Walters: [Being a parent]...

Barbara Walters: [Being a parent]...

[Being a parent] is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a...

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Sarah Ban Breathnach: Grace is available...

Sarah Ban Breathnach: Grace is available...

Grace is available for each of us every day -- our spiritual daily bread -- but we've got to remember to ask for it...

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Marie de Sevigne: It is sometimes...

Marie de Sevigne: It is sometimes...

It is sometimes best to slip over thoughts and not go to the bottom of them.
(Il faut glisser sur les pense?s et ne...

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Maria Weston Chapman: Grudge no expense...

Maria Weston Chapman: Grudge no expense...

Grudge no expense -- yield to no opposition -- forget fatigue -- till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the...

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Margaret Fuller: The especial genius...

Margaret Fuller: The especial genius...

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, and spiritual in...

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Virginia Woolf: My own brain...

Virginia Woolf: My own brain...

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery --always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then...

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Kate Millett: The care of...

Kate Millett: The care of...

The care of children. . . is infinitely better left to the best-trained practitioners of both sexes who have chosen it...

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Andrea Dworkin: Women have been...

Andrea Dworkin: Women have been...

Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of...

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Miriam Beard: Leisure for reverie,...

Miriam Beard: Leisure for reverie,...

Leisure for reverie, gay or somber, does much to enrich life.

Source: Realism in...

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Clara McBride Hale: If you can't...

Clara McBride Hale: If you can't...

If you can't hold [children] in your arms, please hold them in your heart.

Source:...

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Marian Wright Edelman: Parents have become...

Marian Wright Edelman: Parents have become...

Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for children that they forget that they themselves...

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Jane Addams: Social advance depends...

Jane Addams: Social advance depends...

Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result...

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Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: Taught from infancy...

Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: Taught from infancy...

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt...

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