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Elizabeth Blackwell: If society will...

Elizabeth Blackwell: If society will...

If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.

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bell hooks: It is crucial...

bell hooks: It is crucial...

It is crucial for the future of the Black liberation struggle that we remain ever mindful that ours is a shared...

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Anna Jameson: Fame is that...

Anna Jameson: Fame is that...

Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds.

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Anita Brookner: A complete woman...

Anita Brookner: A complete woman...

A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way,...

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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: The will to...

Andrea Dworkin: The will to...

The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once...

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Barbara Ehrenreich: So why do...

Barbara Ehrenreich: So why do...

So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because...

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Helen Keller: Although the world...

Helen Keller: Although the world...

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

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Dorothy Parker: Her mind lives...

Dorothy Parker: Her mind lives...

Her mind lives tidily, apart
From cold and noise and pain,
And bolts the door against her heart,
Out wailing...

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Alice Roosevelt Longworth: My father always...

Alice Roosevelt Longworth: My father always...

My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every...

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Pauline Kael: In this country...

Pauline Kael: In this country...

In this country we encourage creativity among the mediocre, but real bursting creativity appalls us. We put it down as...

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Jane Smiley: My characters never...

Jane Smiley: My characters never...

My characters never die screaming in rage. They attempt to pull themselves back together and go on. And that's...

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Germaine Greer: Energy is the...

Germaine Greer: Energy is the...

Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a...

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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 sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt...

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Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: The beginning is...

Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: The beginning is...

The beginning is always today.

Source: From Journey in Word, ed. Cyndi Craven; an...

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Sojourner Truth: If the first...

Sojourner Truth: If the first...

If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought...

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Marion Woodman: The connection between...

Marion Woodman: The connection between...

The connection between conscious and unconscious poses particular problems in the dancer because the body is the soul...

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Mary Pettibone Poole: There are no...

Mary Pettibone Poole: There are no...

There are no old people nowadays; they are either 'wonderful for their age' or dead.

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Amelia Barr: . . ....

Amelia Barr: . . ....

. . . it is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

Source: All the Days of...

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