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We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around.
Geraldine FerraroRead
Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
Fran LebowitzRead
Today it is fashionable to talk about the poor. Unfortunately, it is not fashionable to talk with them.
Mother TeresaRead
Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.
Mae JemisonRead
Helmer: "Before all else you are a wife and a mother." Nora: "That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being."
Henrik IbsenRead
Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to 'choose' between public justice and private happiness.
Susan FaludiRead
No matter how successful I become as a playwright, my mother would be thrilled to hear me tell her that I'd just lost twenty pounds, gotten married and become a lawyer.
Wendy WassersteinRead
I do not know the word 'quit.' Either I never did, or I have abolished it.
Susan ButcherRead
If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.
Elizabeth BlackwellRead
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
Florence NightingaleRead
Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they can not communicate; they can not communicate because they are separated.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Read
You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love.
Warsan ShireRead
Girls of all kinds can be beautiful - from the thin, plus-sized, short, very tall, ebony to porcelain-skinned; the quirky, clumsy, shy, outgoing and all in between. It's not easy though because many people still put beauty into a confining, narrow box...Think outside of the box...Pledge that you will look in the mirror and find the unique beauty in you.
Tyra BanksRead
We can do no great things-only small things with great love.
Mother TeresaRead
We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced
Malala YousafzaiRead
Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.
Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieRead
Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
Florence NightingaleRead
The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.
Betty FriedanRead
There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
Jane AustenRead
Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin!
Henry David ThoreauRead
A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
Rudyard KiplingRead

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