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I'm single because I was born that way.

Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

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Mae WestThe 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said

Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant bru...

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To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant bru...

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The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.

A spiritual reinterpretation of events gives us miraculous authority to command the winds, to part t...

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Marianne WilliamsonTears to Triumph: The Spiritual Journey from Suffering to Enlightenment

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and ther...

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I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade ...

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It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity - a...

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It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neith...

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I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of ...

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Mary WollstonecraftA Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.

UN studies conducted in more than forty developing countries show that the birth rate falls as women...

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Muhammad YunusBanker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

So let us be clear about this up front: We hope to recruit you to join an incipient movement to eman...

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Nicholas D. KristofHalf the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged h...

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Nicholas D. KristofHalf the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope ...

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Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.

P26 - Only power that springs from the weakness of the oppressed will be sufficiently strong to free...

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The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the pr...

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Paulo FreireWe Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls — even satin-lined, diamond-s...

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Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated — and turned out to grass.

....harmony that would fittingly imitate the utterances and accents of a brave man who is engaged in...

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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

We women are weak," replied Bimala. "So I suppose we must join in the conspiracy of the weak.""Women...

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My husband was very eager to take me out of purdah. One day I said to him, "What do I want with the ...

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Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, ...

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I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call m...

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While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things,The fate of empires and the fall of kings;While quacks ...

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Robert BurnsThe Complete Works Of Robert Burns

Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you b...

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Salman RushdieImaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991

Now, it’s undeniably true that male writers (including yours truly) are generally and commercially a...

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Thank you, Men, for the railroads. Thank you, Men, for inventing the automobile and killing the red ...

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If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.

It occurred to them for the first time in their lives that what's divine can come in dark skin.

We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don’t matter. And in the act of taking t...

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You your own best thing, Sethe. You are.

You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.

When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman se...

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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of...

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Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself roun...

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Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeate...

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The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story o...

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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.

Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her c...

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Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own...

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No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have be...

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What hell condemned, let heaven now heal.

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AberjhaniCollected Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

Whether we consider hip-hop as an evolved manifestation of the Harlem Renaissance or something compl...

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AberjhaniJourney through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it wa...

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AberjhaniSongs from the Black Skylark zPed Music Player

Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for yo...

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Women are never so strong as after their defeat.

Enlightenment is coming out from the fear mode, victim mode and guilt mode of living to the mode of ...

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There are miracles and glory in every child. Our glory lies in empowering them to flourish their glo...

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Enlightenment gives profound joy of the heart and a great love for the fellow beings.

Mindfulness improves your capacity for self-discovery and empowerment.

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Amit RayMindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management

Empowerment includes growth mindset, positive thinking, acceptance of new challenge, learning and po...

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Amit RayMindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management

I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.

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Anaïs NinHenry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge tha...

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Now say, have women worth, or have they none? Or had they some, but with our Queen is’t gone? Nay Ma...

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There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthe...

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I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing fr...

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Arthur SchopenhauerSchopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy

In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but va...

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When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.

Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you too...

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As women in today's society, we are encouraged to compare ourselves to other women when what we need...

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I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations...

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I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, ...

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I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or becau...

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What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same the...

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I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.

Milton's Eve! Milton's Eve! ... Milton tried to see the first woman; but Cary, he saw her not ... I ...

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No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne.""I ask why? I must have a reason. In all respects he is...

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There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackl...

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If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest ...

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An afternoon drive from Los Angeles will take you up into the high mountains, where eagles circle ab...

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The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, un...

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A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.

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Coco ChanelThe Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons from the World's Most Elegant Woman

The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Sup...

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It is a beautiful thing to be on fire for justice… there is no greater joy than inspiring and empowe...

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In short, superheroes balance the forces of light and dark, rage and serenity, and the sacred and th...

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Deepak ChopraThe Seven Spiritual Laws of Superheroes: Harnessing Our Power to Change the World

What we ask is to be human individuals, however peculiar and unexpected. It is no good saying: "You ...

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Dorothy L. SayersAre Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society

In reaction against the age-old slogan, "woman is the weaker vessel," or the still more offensive, "...

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Dorothy L. SayersAre Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society

Once lay down the rule that the job comes first and you throw that job open to every individual, man...

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Dorothy L. SayersAre Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society

In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his j...

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Dorothy L. SayersAre Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society

What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Ha

Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- o...

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The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to ma...

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[W]hen I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insistin...

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[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that th...

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Dorothy L. SayersThe Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 1

In youth, it was a way I had,To do my best to please.And change, with every passing ladTo suit his t...

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Dorothy ParkerThe Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker

But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that beli...

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I want to be a Renaissance Woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I jus...

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Shooting Willoughby carrying Marianne up the path. ... Male strength -- the desire to be cradled aga...

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Emma ThompsonThe Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film