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“If your head tells you one thing and your heart tells you another before you do anything you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart.”
“The precept "Know yourself " was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind but likewise that we might understand our own worth.”
“I believe that dreams transport us through the underside of our days and that if we wish to become acquainted with the dark side of what we are the signposts are there waiting for us to translate t...”
“Only by pursuing the extremes in one's nature with all its contradictions appetites aversions rages can one hope to understand a little ... oh I admit only a very little ... of what life is about.”
“We do not make beams from the hollow decaying trunk of the fallen oak. We use the upsoaring tree in the full vigor of its sap.”
“We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth as human truth all the maps change. There are new mountains.”
“I hear the singing of the lives of women. The clear mystery the offering the pride.”
“For women there are undoubtedly great difficulties in the path but so much the more to overcome. First no woman would say "I am but a woman!" But a woman! What more can you ask to be?”
“Remember Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did but she did it backwards and in high heels.”
“Some people give time some money some their skills and connections some literally give their life's blood . . . but everyone has something to give.”
“Though I have no productive worth I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.”
“I was once the typical daughter then the easily recognizable wife and then the quintessential mother. I seem always to have reminded people of someone in their family. Perhaps I am just the triumph...”
“To be a housewife is ... a difficult a wrenching sometimes ungrateful job if it's looked on as only a job. Regarded as a profession it is the noblest as it is the most ancient of the catalogue. Let...”
“There is not one big cosmic meaning for all there is only the meaning we each give to our life an individual meaning an individual plot like an individual novel a book for each person.”
“I see myself as Rhoda not Mary Tyler Moore.”
“From the first I made my learning what little it was useful every way I could.”
“I am an ordinary person but carried to extremes.”
“Whether it was work marriage or family I've always been a late bloomer.”
“I want by understanding myself to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.”
“In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature but in men it is a vice.”
