"My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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"I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.“
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"Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression."
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"With a recent birthday, I've been acting now for twenty years."
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