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Emma Hart Willard: He is not...

Emma Hart Willard: He is not...

He is not necessarily the best teacher who performs the most labour; makes his pupils work the hardest, and bustle the...

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Emily James Putnam: Maternity is on...

Emily James Putnam: Maternity is on...

Maternity is on the face of it an unsocial experience.

Source: Introduction, The...

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Emily James Putnam: The selfishness that...

Emily James Putnam: The selfishness that...

The selfishness that a woman has learned to stifle or to dissemble where she alone is concerned, blooms freely and...

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Henry Louis Gates, Jr: We must begin...

Henry Louis Gates, Jr: We must begin...

We must begin to understand the nature of intertextuality . . . the manner by which texts poems and novels respond...

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Charlotte Forten Grimke: Ah, what a...

Charlotte Forten Grimke: Ah, what a...

Ah, what a grand, glorious day this has been. The dawn of freedom which it heralds may not break upon us at once; but...

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Anna Julia Cooper: Teach [our girls]...

Anna Julia Cooper: Teach [our girls]...

Teach [our girls] that there is a race with special needs which they and only they can help; that the world needs and...

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Mary Jean LeTendre: We have to...

Mary Jean LeTendre: We have to...

We have to preach what winners practice.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for...

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Judith Krantz: The only way...

Judith Krantz: The only way...

The only way to find out if you can write is to set aside a certain period every day and try. Save enough money to...

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Mary McCarthy: In science, all...

Mary McCarthy: In science, all...

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.

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Margaret Drabble: The middle years,...

Margaret Drabble: The middle years,...

The middle years, caught between children and parents, free of neither: the past stretches back too densely, it is too...

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Orson Scott Card: Humanity does not...

Orson Scott Card: Humanity does not...

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness...

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Arthur Koestler: Creativity is a...

Arthur Koestler: Creativity is a...

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same...

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Lisa Alther: Poets are the...

Lisa Alther: Poets are the...

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, I've always felt that a person's intelligence is...

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Jean Genet: What we need...

Jean Genet: What we need...

What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born.

Source: The Blacks, 1959.
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Charles Simmons: Never go backward....

Charles Simmons: Never go backward....

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.

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Artemus Ward: It ain't so...

Artemus Ward: It ain't so...

It ain't so much what people don't know that hurts as what they know that ain't so.

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Robert Nathan: Give exceeding thanks...

Robert Nathan: Give exceeding thanks...

Give exceeding thanks for the mystery which remains a mystery still -- the veil that hides you from the infinite,...

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Robert Nathan: Sorrow is a...

Robert Nathan: Sorrow is a...

Sorrow is a silence in the heart.

Source: A Cedar Box.
-- Robert Nathan, (Jan 2...

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Thomas Mann: A great truth...

Thomas Mann: A great truth...

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

Source: Essay on...

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Lisa Alther: I wrote for...

Lisa Alther: I wrote for...

I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside...

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