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"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."
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Personal Development

"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness."
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Personal Development

"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked."
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Personal Development

"The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue."
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Personal Development

"Every woman is just a different kind of problem."
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Personal Development

"Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!"
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Personal Development

"An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity."
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Personal Development

"A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me."
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Personal Development

"I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer."
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Personal Development

"Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation."
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"There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights. Dr. King did not stir us to move for our civil rights to have them taken away in these kinds of fashions."
Politics

"We've got to work to save our children and do it with full respect for the fact that if we do not, no one else is going to do it."
Work

"No one will do for you what you need to do for yourself. We cannot afford to be separate. We have to see that all of us are in the same boat."
Will

"We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity."
Life

"We had people of all backgrounds coming together - all races, all creeds, all colors, all status in life. And coming together there was a kind of quiet dignity and a kind of sense of caring and a feeling of joint responsibility."
Life

"We have to realize we are building a movement."
Building

"A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted."
Woman

"Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals."
Goal

"Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It's important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It's the way in which we ourselves grow and develop."
Life
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