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"Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave."

Mizner, Wilson on egotism
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"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on inferiority
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"Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on friends and friendship
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"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on fear
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"Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are, and then we make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily for yourself because you can never really live anyone else's life, not even your own child's."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on decisions
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"If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?"

Steinem, Gloria on women    Share

"Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so."

Dworkin, Andrea on women
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"I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth."

Cartland, Barbara on women
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"I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments."

Wilde, Oscar on talkativeness
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"Nothing is more discouraging than unappreciated sarcasm."

Unknown, Source on sarcasm
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"My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself."

Angelou, Maya on jokes and jokers
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"We have a Bill of rights. What we need is a Bill of responsibilities."

Maher, Bill on responsibility
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"I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass."

Angelou, Maya on aggression
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"Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on criticism
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