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Joyce Brothers: Listening, not imitation,...

Joyce Brothers: Listening, not imitation,...

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. . . . If you want to influence someone, listen to...

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Carter Heyward: I'm a priest,...

Carter Heyward: I'm a priest,...

I'm a priest, not a priestess. Priestess implies mumbo jumbo and all sorts of pagan goings-on. Those who oppose us...

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Mary McLeod Bethune: If we have...

Mary McLeod Bethune: If we have...

If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we...

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Carol Moseley-Braun: It's hard to...

Carol Moseley-Braun: It's hard to...

It's hard to be the first. It's almost as if I'm subject to a different level of...

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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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Ruth Benedict: It is strange...

Ruth Benedict: It is strange...

It is strange how we rebel against a platitude until suddenly in a different lingo it looms up again as the only...

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Aimee Semple Mcpherson: What is my...

Aimee Semple Mcpherson: What is my...

What is my task? To get the gospel around the world in the shortest possible time to every man and woman and boy and...

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Charleszetta Waddles: . ....

Charleszetta Waddles: . ....

. . . I believe that you cannot go any further than you can think. I certainly believe if you don't desire a thing,...

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Virginia Woolf: On the outskirts...

Virginia Woolf: On the outskirts...

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

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Mary Church Terrell: While most girls...

Mary Church Terrell: While most girls...

While most girls run away from home to marry, I ran away to teach.

Source: A...

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Jane Addams: I do not...

Jane Addams: I do not...

I do not believe that women are better than men. We have not wrecked railroads, nor corrupted legislature, nor done...

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Althea Gibson: I think I've...

Althea Gibson: I think I've...

I think I've already got the main thing I've always wanted, which is to be somebody, to have an identify. I'm Althea...

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Rosalyn Sussman Yalow: I have long...

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow: I have long...

I have long felt that the trouble with discrimination is not discrimination per se, but rather that the people who are...

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Rebecca West: The main difference...

Rebecca West: The main difference...

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

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Indira Gandhi: A nation' s...

Indira Gandhi: A nation' s...

A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from...

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Ella T Grasso: I would not...

Ella T Grasso: I would not...

I would not be President because I do not aspire to be President. But l'm sure that a woman will be President. When? I...

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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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Mary McLeod Bethune: From the first,...

Mary McLeod Bethune: From the first,...

From the first, I made my learning, what little it was, useful every way I could.

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Marianne Williamson: Joy is what...

Marianne Williamson: Joy is what...

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

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Marianne Williamson: Birth is violent,...

Marianne Williamson: Birth is violent,...

Birth is violent, whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea.

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