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Gloria Steinem: The first problem...

Gloria Steinem: The first problem...

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

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It is cruel,...

It is cruel,...

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness & of pain: of strength &...

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Great literature must...

Great literature must...

Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come...

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Terence: This I consider...

Terence: This I consider...

This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess.

Source:...

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Aesop: Thinking to get...

Aesop: Thinking to get...

Thinking to get at once all the gold that the goose could give, he killed it, and opened it only to find -...

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I make mistakes;...

I make mistakes;...

I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it.

Source: The Snake Has All the...

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Saul Steinberg: The frightening thought...

Saul Steinberg: The frightening thought...

The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.

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Lu Yan: True thoughts have...

Lu Yan: True thoughts have...

True thoughts have duration in themselves. If the thoughts endure, the seed is enduring; if the seed endures, the...

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Mary Astell: Women are not...

Mary Astell: Women are not...

Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their chains,...

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Maxwell Anderson: Truth's like a...

Maxwell Anderson: Truth's like a...

Truth's like a fire, and will burn through and be seen.

Source: In ...As One Mad...

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Ellen Glasgow: To teach one's...

Ellen Glasgow: To teach one's...

To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.

Source: The Woman Within,...

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Sonia Johnson: All bonafide revolutions...

Sonia Johnson: All bonafide revolutions...

All bonafide revolutions are of necessity revolutions of the spirit.

Source: In...

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There are things...

There are things...

There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until...

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G C Lichtenberg: It is hardly...

G C Lichtenberg: It is hardly...

It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and...

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Charles V: Fortune has something...

Charles V: Fortune has something...

Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further...

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Ellen Glasgow: No idea is...

Ellen Glasgow: No idea is...

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be...

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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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One sees that...

One sees that...

One sees that dead, vacant look steal over the rarest, finest of women's faces . . . in the very midst, it may be, of...

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The biggest obstacle...

The biggest obstacle...

The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter...

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Harold S Geneen: The highest art...

Harold S Geneen: The highest art...

The highest art of professional management requires the literal ability to 'smell' a 'real fact' from all...

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