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Put it down in capital letters: SELF-DEVELOPMENT IS A HIGHER DUTY THAN SELF-SACRIFICE. The thing that most retards and militates against women’s self development is…

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Resolved, That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective…
We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but…
With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in,…
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.
Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions - requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs -…
Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush…
I am weary seeing our laboring classes so wretchedly housed, fed, and clothed, while thousands of dollars are wasted every year over…
My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a…
Only those who have lived all their lives under the dark clouds of vague, undefined fears can appreciate the joy of a…
I view it as one of the greatest crimes to shadow the minds of the young with these gloomy superstitions, and with…
The bible teaches that women brought sin and death into the world. I don't believe that any man ever talked with god.…

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True compassion is about not bruising the other person’s self-respect. — Naoki Higashida
To read a lot of trash mixing the blood of war with business’s stench. To root out any happiness. To go out,… — Etel Adnan
How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself! — Charles Lamb
When all my endeavor is turned toward Thee because all Thy endeavor is turned toward me; when I look unto Thee alone… — Nicholas of Cusa
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The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self. Adults work to finish a task, but the… — Maria Montessori
Hair brings one’s self-image into focus; it is vanity’s proving ground. Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of mysterious prejudices — Shana Alexander
Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off. — Alain de Botton
With emotional abuse, the insults, insinuations, criticism, and accusations slowly eat away at the victim’s self-esteem until he or she is incapable… — Beverly Engel
It’s self-full to be first, to be as good as possible to you. To take care of you, keep you whole and… — Iyanla Vanzant
It is better to be an outcast, a stranger in one’s own country, than an outcast from one’s self. It is better… — Chris Hedges
I suspect it is for one’s self-interest that one looks at one’s surroundings and one’s self. This search is personally born and… — Lee Friedlander

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