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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

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FLORENCE BELCHER [By eating fish] you may be replacing a fatty meal like a bacon cheeseburger with something low in f...
FLORENCE SHEEHAN I think an encore is perfectly acceptable, but I find it so weird when people do two or three.
FLORENCE WELCH I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do d...
FLORENCE WELCH I always seem to feel that everything is about to cave in on me. I think that maybe music is my prot...
FLORENCE WELCH She had met people who had tried to fit in. She had met people who tried to stand out. But until the...
MILLIE FLORENCE I think music should be scary. Music is an exorcism.
FLORENCE WELCH Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any e...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this - 'de...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE How very little can be done under the spirit of fear
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few do...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute th...
FLORENCE KING In the South, Sunday morning sex is accompanied by church bells.
FLORENCE KING The concept of being a locavore, or one who chooses whenever possible to incorporate locally grown o...
TYLER FLORENCE What cruel mistakes are sometimes made by benevolent men and women in matters of business about whic...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE You ask me why I do not write something.... I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they o...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE When I used to live in the Brewster Projects, I always thought it would be fantastic to have a phone...
FLORENCE BALLARD As a chef, I prefer fish over meat,
TYLER FLORENCE I don't think there's anything wrong with a hot dog or other convenience foods, as long as t...
TYLER FLORENCE I got to live out my 11-year-old fantasies - I got to go on stage with Green Day. Billie Joe called ...
FLORENCE WELCH Keep dating and you will become so sick, so badly crippled, so deformed, so emotionally warped and m...
FLORENCE KING I can expect no sympathy or help from (my family).
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE It was kind of schizophrenic at times because she was still mom. But after a while, in a weird way, ...
FLORENCE SEIDELMAN We are just letting everybody in the community know that this is a possibility if they want to see t...
FLORENCE PATERNO They're designing a poster for our advertising push. I thought that was kind of neat that these kids...
FLORENCE PATERNO It's not quite the crowd we had hoped for but everyone seems to be enjoying themselves.
FLORENCE PATERNO We're trying to integrate the two buildings into one cultural arts center.
FLORENCE PATERNO We want people to dress up like a star. But, if they don't want to, come casual.
FLORENCE PATERNO To be honest, I think the only show that's doing OK for them is House . It seems to have grown in te...
FLORENCE NG In the United States an American is top priority, service delivery is top priority and this is the t...
FLORENCE MUMBA We are failing as a country because our structures have broken down. We have left everything to the ...
FLORENCE MUMBA Winners win because they try out something.
FLORENCE MUMBA After each fashion show, we will also have a fantasy reception in order to showcase the talents of o...
FLORENCE BELCHER We hope that it will encourage the grooms to come out and take part in the wedding. it will give the...
FLORENCE BELCHER My goal has always been to be like a female George Burns. Having had the opportunity to work with hi...
FLORENCE HENDERSON There's an old Chinese proverb that says the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ...
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