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Women's Voices: Quotations by Women
Quote collection assembled by Jone Johnson Lewis
Quotation: Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.
Quotation: People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.
Quotation: If I don't have friends, then I ain't got nothin'.
Quotation: You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a planation.
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