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Mary McCarthy: If someone tells...

Mary McCarthy: If someone tells...

If someone tells you he is going to make a realistic decision, you immediately understand that he has resolved to do...

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Aldous Huxley: The quality of...

Aldous Huxley: The quality of...

The quality of moral behaviour varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings...

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Madeleine L'Engle: Sometimes idiosyncrasies which...

Madeleine L'Engle: Sometimes idiosyncrasies which...

Sometimes idiosyncrasies which used to be irritating become endearing, part of the complexity of a partner who has...

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Evelyn Waugh: I'm one of...

Evelyn Waugh: I'm one of...

I'm one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.

Source: Decline and...

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Joseph Heller: I think in...

Joseph Heller: I think in...

I think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going...

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Peter De Vries: Or look at...

Peter De Vries: Or look at...

Or look at it this way.
Psychoanalysis is a permanent fad.


Source: Forever...

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V S Naipaul: An autobiography can...

V S Naipaul: An autobiography can...

An autobiography can distort, facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies. It reveals the writer...

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Wayne Dyer: How people treat...

Wayne Dyer: How people treat...

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

Source: In The...

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Wayne Dyer: People who want...

Wayne Dyer: People who want...

People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the...

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George Gurdjieff: Humanity is moving...

George Gurdjieff: Humanity is moving...

Humanity is moving in a circle. The progress in mechanical things of the past hundred years has proceeded at the cost...

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Derek Bok: I suspect that...

Derek Bok: I suspect that...

I suspect that no community will become humane and caring by restricting what its members can...

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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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Kelly Miller: Racial and denominational...

Kelly Miller: Racial and denominational...

Racial and denominational schools impart to the membership of their communities something which the general...

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Mordecai Wyatt Johnson: The Negro people...

Mordecai Wyatt Johnson: The Negro people...

The Negro people of America . . . have cut our forests, tilled our fields, built our railroads, fought our battles,...

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