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Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

~Flora Lewis

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The fact that the movement was carried on by women who, for the most part, had no money of their own and were totally inexperienced in organization, and that they won their fight in about two generations, makes a story often dramatic and always worth preserving.

~Florence Ellinwood Allen

Topics: About Always Carried Dramatic Fact Fight Generations Had Inexperienced Makes Money Most Movement Often Organization Own Part Preserving Story Totally Two Were Who Women Won Worth

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The very fact that women now form about one-fifth of the employes in manufacture and commerce in this country has opened a vast field of industrial legislation directly affecting women as wage-earners.

~Florence Kelley

Topics: About Affecting Commerce Country Directly Fact Field Form Industrial Legislation Manufacture Now Opened Vast Very Women

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People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

~Florence King

Topics: About Age American American Dream Asleep Busy Consequently Could Dream Dreaming Error Human Human Error Living People Right Switch

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Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it.

~Florence King

Topics: Able About Afterwards Been Best Cigarette Even First First One Good Had Just Miss Morning Next Now Only Otherwise Pretended Sex Smoke Tasted The Only Thing Thing Would

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Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.

~Florence King

Topics: Able About Being Jobs Like Out People Put Read School Showing Showing Up Start Undertaker Up Worrying

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Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.

~Florence Nightingale

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Do not meet or overtake a patient who is moving about in order to speak to him or to give him any message or letter. You might just as well give him a box on the ear. I have seen a patient fall flat on the ground who was standing when his nurse came into the room.

~Florence Nightingale

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When you're heartbroken, you're at your most creative - you have to channel all your energies into something else to not think about it. Contentment is a creativity killer, but don't worry - I'm very capable of making myself discontented.

~Florence Welch

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My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a couple of birdcages. And a lot of newspaper cuttings. I used to have a weird thing about cutting out morbid headlines from newspapers, and collecting them. I was fascinated with drowning, which is kind of strange.

~Florence Welch

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