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Suffragette Inspirational Quotes (1448)

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One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world.
Ellen Glasgow
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Every newly discovered truth judges the world, separates the good from the evil, and calls on faithful souls to make sure of their election.
Julia Ward Howe
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A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.
Rebecca West
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I had only two offers of marriage in my life, and I refused both.
Catherine Helen Spence
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Happiness rarely keeps company with an empty stomach
Helen Keller
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Any fool can make a quilt and, after we had made a couple of dozen over twenty years ago, we quit the business with a conviction that nobody but a fool would spend so much time in cutting bits of dry goods into yet small bits and sewing them together again, just for the sake of making believe that they were busy at practical work.
Abigail Scott Duniway
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It's odd that men feel they must protect women, since for the most part they must be protected from men.
Abigail Scott Duniway
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Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually talks of thyself as being old, thee may perhaps bring on some of the infirmities of age. At least I would not risk it if I were thee.
Hannah Whitall Smith
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I expect some new phases of life this summer, and shall try to get the honey from each moment.
Lucy Stone
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The IWW [Industrial Workers of the World] has been accused of pushing women to the front. This is not true. Rather, the women have not been kept in back, and so they have naturally moved to the front.
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
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The Town Clerkship, however, was the means of giving me a lesson in electoral methods.
Catherine Helen Spence
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... for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted.
Louisa May Alcott
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I am fierce for work. Without work I am nothing.
Winifred Holtby
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... beauty, like ecstasy, has always been hostile to the commonplace. And the commonplace, under its popular label of the normal,has been the supreme authority for Homo sapiens since the days when he was probably arboreal.
Ellen Glasgow
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Youth is always an enemy to the old.
Ellen Glasgow
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... A La Recherche du Temps Perdu is like a beautiful hand with long fingers reaching out to pluck a perfect fruit, without error,for the accurate eye knows well it is growing just there on the branch, while Ulysses is the fumbling of a horned hand in darkness after a doubted jewel.
Rebecca West
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Youth knows no remedy for grief but death.
Winifred Holtby
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. .women are house as well as factory slaves and are forced to bear a double workload.
Clara Zetkin
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. . . every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning of my love for natural things, for earth and sky, for roads and fields and woods, for trees and grass and flowers a love which has been second only to my sense of enduring kinship with birds and animals, and all inarticulate creatures.
Ellen Glasgow
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The childhood of the individual and the race is full of fears, and panic-stricken attempts to avert what is feared by placating the gods with painful sacrifices.
Rebecca West
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When I recollect the treasure of friendship that has been bestowed upon me I withdraw all charges against life. If much has been denied me, much, very much has been given. So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart I shall say that life is good.
Helen Keller
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I have seen that women are shut out from every means of earning a living that is really remunerative, crowded into certain narrow walks, which, in consequence, are so thronged that the poor creatures are forced to work for the merest pittance.
Lillie Devereux Blake
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The more I see of dogs, the more I like children.
Winifred Holtby
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It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
Helen Keller
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