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I saw what could be done with words, for I had a vision of a new world as I talked.
Nellie L. McClung
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By nice women . . . you probably mean selfish women who have no more thought for the underprivileged, overworked women than a pussycat in a sunny window for the starving kitten in the street. Now in that sense I am not a nice woman, for I do care.
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the grief that can be turned into words soon heals.
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thought without expression is dynamic and gathers volume by repression. Evolution when blocked and suppressed becomes revolution.
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Chivalry is like a line of credit. You can get plenty of it when you do not need it.
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