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Amelia Earhart: It seems to...

Amelia Earhart: It seems to...

It seems to me that the effect of having other interests beyond those exclusively domestic works well. The more one...

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Amelia Earhart: Women must try...

Amelia Earhart: Women must try...

Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to...

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Marie Curie: [H]umanity also needs...

Marie Curie: [H]umanity also needs...

[H]umanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it...

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Hillary Rodham Clinton: I believe that...

Hillary Rodham Clinton: I believe that...

I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of...

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Jill Ruckelshaus: We are in...

Jill Ruckelshaus: We are in...

We are in for a very, very long haul. . . . I am asking for everything you have to give. We will never give up. ....

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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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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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Karen Horney: Is not the...

Karen Horney: Is not the...

Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their feeling of...

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Joyce Brothers: Before your dreams...

Joyce Brothers: Before your dreams...

Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams.

Source: In The...

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Sylvia Ashton-Warner: When love turns...

Sylvia Ashton-Warner: When love turns...

When love turns away, now, I don't follow it. I sit and suffer, unprotesting, until I feel the tread of another...

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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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Gracie Allen: They laughed at...

Gracie Allen: They laughed at...

They laughed at Joan of Arc, but she went right ahead and built it.

Source: In The...

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Katherine Dunham: We weren't pushing...

Katherine Dunham: We weren't pushing...

We weren't pushing Black is beautiful. We just showed it.

Source: In American...

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Mary Baker Eddy: Give up the...

Mary Baker Eddy: Give up the...

Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly...

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Florence Nightingale: The world is...

Florence Nightingale: The world is...

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to...

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Ethel Percy Andrus: We learn the...

Ethel Percy Andrus: We learn the...

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to...

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Lucretia Mott: The world has...

Lucretia Mott: The world has...

The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains...

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Emmeline Pankhurst: Justice and judgment...

Emmeline Pankhurst: Justice and judgment...

Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations...

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Geraldine Ferraro: You people married...

Geraldine Ferraro: You people married...

You people married to Italian men, you know what it's like.

Source: On her...

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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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