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Suffragette Inspirational Quotes (1448)

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The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all.
Olympia Brown
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The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.
Louisa May Alcott
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I had a pleasant time with my mind, for it was happy.
Louisa May Alcott
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That was the worst of being poor, you couldn't give the right things in sickness.
Ellen Glasgow
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We don't choose our talents but we needn't hide them in a napkin because they are not just what we want.
Louisa May Alcott
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In the midst of her tears came the thought, When people are in danger, they ask God to save them and, slipping down upon her knees, she said her prayer as she had never said it before, for when human help seems gone we turn to Him as naturally as lost children cry to their father, and feel sure that he will hear and answer them.
Louisa May Alcott
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I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare.
Helen Keller
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I am much perturbed by this business of sickness. Our bodies seem so easily to leap into the saddle where our minds should be. People who are ill become changelings.
Winifred Holtby
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It takes two flints to make a fire.
Louisa May Alcott
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Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
Helen Keller
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When a person that one loves is in the world and alive and well, and pleased to be in the world, then to miss them is only a new flavor, a salt sharpness in experience. It is when the beloved is unhappy or maimed or troubled that one misses with pain.
Winifred Holtby
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The dirt is picturesque, so I don't mind.
Louisa May Alcott
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It was a needed instrument to spread abroad the truth of a new gospel to woman, and I could not withhold my hand to stay the work I had begun. I saw not the end from the beginning and dreamed where to my propositions to society would lead me.
Amelia Bloomer
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Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.
Louisa May Alcott
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Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.
Rebecca West
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A popular saying in Alderson went as follows: 'They work us like a horse, feed us like a bird, treat us like a child, dress us like a man - and then expect us to act like a lady.
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
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He who does most to cure woman of her weakness, her frivolity, and her servility will likewise at the same stroke do most to cure man of his brutality, his selfishness and his sensuality.
Frances Power Cobbe
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It always seems to me when the anti-suffrage members of the Government criticise militancy in women that it is very like beasts of prey reproaching the gentler animals who turn in desperate resistance when at the point of death.
Emmeline Pankhurst
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He who demands little gets it.
Ellen Glasgow
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Resolved to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her.
Louisa May Alcott
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If you were to write down all the possible ways to motivate people to do better work, friendly praise would have to come near the head of your list.
Hannah Whitall Smith
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Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots.
Crystal Eastman
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To drink for pleasure may be a distraction, but to drink from misery is always a danger.
Ellen Glasgow
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Democracy cannot sustain itself amid a high degree of violence.
Mary Ritter Beard
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