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joseph_brakken: Alice Duer Miller (1874 - 1942) was a suffragette, activist, novelist, poet, satirist, columnist.

WiseLifeQuotes2: “If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends — you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.” -Alice Duer Miller Via Wise Life Lesson

LessonsWise: “If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends — you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.” -Alice Duer Miller Via Wise Life Lesson

MilkaSavala20: Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others,Alice Duer Miller,helping, people,

Zayn_022: Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on. -Alice Duer Miller MKJW CHERISH MUNAWAR

LessonsWise: “If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends — you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.” -Alice Duer Miller Via Wise Life Lesson

WiseLifeQuotes2: “If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends — you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.” -Alice Duer Miller Via Wise Life Lesson

reallykazcooke: Hecht describes writers with seeming throwaway lines. Alice Duer Miller (‘a lady with aspic manners and a poet’s heart’) and Dorothy Parker (‘a pretty garrote of phrases in her reticule).

IamRealAR: Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on. -Alice Duer Miller ~IamRealAR JANTA KI JAAN PRIYANKA

BB_Queen_priya: Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on. -Alice Duer Miller JANTA KI JAAN PRIYANKA

Celia_McKeon: “You can listen like a blank wall or like an auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer.” Alice Duer Miller.

LessonsWise: “If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends — you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.” -Alice Duer Miller Via Wise Life Lesson

WiseLifeQuotes2: “If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends — you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.” -Alice Duer Miller Via Wise Life Lesson

SachinK1606: Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on. -Alice Duer Miller

LessonsWise: “If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends — you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.” -Alice Duer Miller Via Wise Life Lesson

momlovedquotes: It's very painful for you to criticize your friends -- you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it -- that's the time to hold your tongue. Alice Duer Miller

alfavina: The strongest will is the will that knows how to bend.” – Alice Duer Miller.

expectsuccess: “Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.” –Alice Duer Miller

CiteSeer: "Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you." - Alice Duer Miller

snopes: While the image doesn't show a real pamphlet opposing suffrage for men, it does contain a real, satirical poem written in 1915 by poet Alice Duer Miller in support of women's voting rights.

Casildius: — Alice Duer Miller 1874-1942 I am American bred, I have seen much to hate here—much to forgive, But in a world where England is finished and dead, I do not wish to live. ‘The White Cliffs’ (1940) p. 70

lostone13_: If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue. -Alice Duer Miller Ro45hit ACER PRIYANKA CHAHAR

WiseLifeQuotes2: “If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends — you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.” -Alice Duer Miller Via Wise Life Lesson

LessonsWise: “If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends — you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.” -Alice Duer Miller Via Wise Life Lesson

AlysonConnew: Poem of the week: The Revolt of Mother by Alice Duer Miller

AtelierJ11: Feminism “Mother, what is a Feminist?” “A Feminist, my daughter, Is any woman now who cares To think about her own affairs As men don’t think she oughter.” Are women people? A book of rhymes for suffrage times. By Alice Duer Miller

Badass4Mothers: “Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this.” - Alice Duer Miller (“Why We Oppose Votes for Men,” 1915)

vkjha62: Poem of the week: The Revolt of Mother by Alice Duer Miller Man’s claim to be expert in all things – including how to be a woman – is dismantled with devastating sarcasm

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_ayyumii: Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on. -Alice Duer Miller RALPHGAIL WORK IN PROGRESS

JessieGothland: By Alice Duer Miller

xhaworthx: from The White Cliffs by Alice Duer Miller

GafariumYinka: Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on. -Alice Duer Miller

PersonalDevel_: “If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends — you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.” -Alice Duer Miller Via Wise Life Lesson

KyleCopeGoliath: The White Cliffs by Alice Duer Miller. The Elizabeth it speaks of is the First, but in her defense of the ancient English liberties upon which the United States was founded, it’s equally well said of Elizabeth II.

StbanLoopz: "I have seen much to hate here, much to forgive. But in a world where England is finished and dead, I do not wish to live." -- Alice Duer Miller : The White Cliffs

WiseLifeQuotes2: “If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends — you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.” -Alice Duer Miller Via Wise Life Lesson

LessonsWise: “If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends — you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.” -Alice Duer Miller Via Wise Life Lesson

iam_cups: If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue. -Alice Duer Miller KUMUCONCERTis4U RALPHGAIL

DaytonArt: Our Language of Art book club returns next Saturday, Aug 27, with an exploration of art in the DAI collection related to themes in the book "Are Women People?" by celebrated American writer Alice Duer Miller. Advance registration is required.

DailySuffragist: Always a good day for this gem by Alice Duer Miller.

PersonalDevel_: “If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends — you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.” -Alice Duer Miller Via Wise Life Lesson

DaytonArt: Join us for our next Language of Art book club program! Enjoy art in the DAI collection related to themes in the book, “Are Women People?” by celebrated early 20th American writer Alice Duer Miller.

RalphGailMM: Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on. -Alice Duer Miller RALPHGAIL LOVES KUMU

TerryLeeMarzell: NY English teacher Alice Duer Miller was also a suffragist and prolific author

LessonsWise: “If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends — you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.” -Alice Duer Miller Via Wise Life Lesson

iam_cups: If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue. -Alice Duer Miller RALPHGAIL HapPIEly MARRIED

iam_cups: If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue. -Alice Duer Miller RALPHGAIL PIEnally TOGETHER

mind_of_void: "The strongest will is the will that knows how to bend." - Alice Duer Miller.

firousi: “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give values to survival.” Alice Duer Miller

firousi: “It's hard upon occasions to be forceful and sublime When you're treated as incompetents three-quarters of the time.” Alice Duer Miller, Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times

LouLumenick: NY TV debut 7/16/62 at 1:30 am on WCBS' "The Late Show.'' Following repeat of THE BEGINNING OR THE END (1947), Ralph Murphy's forgotten musical remake of twice-filmed Alice Duer Miller story premiered 1/22/36 at the New York Paramount with the usual stage show.

MunawarFan752: Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on. -Alice Duer Miller PUBLIC STANDS WITH MUNAWAR

MsAdrianBlack: FYI In 1915, poet Alice Duer Miller published "Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times." Her poem titled "Why We Oppose Pockets for Women" is a satire about arguments against women voting.

pfanderson: Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times by Alice Duer Miller [download this ebook for free]

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pfanderson: “Are Women People?”: Alice Duer Miller’s Poetry and Politics [paywall]

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RandomQ85433955: The strongest will is the will that knows how to bend. ~ Alice Duer Miller (Manslaughter)

erudakemwa: “If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends — you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.” -Alice Duer Miller

PersonalDevel_: “If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends — you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.” -Alice Duer Miller Via Wise Life Lesson

POETSorg: There, little girl, don’t read, You’re fond of your books, I know, But Brother might mope If he had no hope Of getting ahead of you. —Alice Duer Miller

WiseLifeQuotes2: “If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends — you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.” -Alice Duer Miller Via Wise Life Lesson

numbalum89: “It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means.” ~ Alice Duer Miller

sherlyholmes: Poem of the day: "Why We Oppose Pockets for Women" by Alice Duer Miller.

RandomQ85433955: The strongest will is the will that knows how to bend. ~ Alice Duer Miller (Manslaughter)

LessonsWise: “If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends — you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.” -Alice Duer Miller Via Wise Life Lesson

PersonalDevel_: “If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends — you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.” -Alice Duer Miller Via Wise Life Lesson

WiseLifeQuotes2: “If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends — you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.” -Alice Duer Miller Via Wise Life Lesson

LessonsWise: “If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends — you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.” -Alice Duer Miller Via Wise Life Lesson

PersonalDevel_: “If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends — you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.” -Alice Duer Miller Via Wise Life Lesson

TheJaneOnStilts: If it's very painful to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But I'd you take the slightest pleasure in doing it - that's the time to hold your tongue. - Alice Duer Miller (1874-1942)

Jeromobot: I have seen much to hate here - much to forgive, But in a world where England is finished and dead, I do not wish to live. Alice Duer Miller

DrEinavRFox: This was the title of a newspaper column by suffragist Alice Duer Miller in the 1910s. We should have answered this question by now.

vsrajadnya: "Are Women People?" Alice Duer Miller, 1915

PatrickIber: Alice Duer Miller would have been great at twitter. From "Are Women People?" 1915

PaulKetzle: Alice Duer Miller: Are Women People? SCOTUS: Nope!

PersonalDevel_: “If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends — you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.” -Alice Duer Miller Via Wise Life Lesson

GerwatVirginia: I have seen much to hate here – much to forgive, But in a world in which England is finished and dead, I do not wish to live ~ Alice Duer Miller, The White Cliffs

LessonsWise: “If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends — you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.” -Alice Duer Miller Via Wise Life Lesson

WiseLifeQuotes2: “If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends — you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.” -Alice Duer Miller Via Wise Life Lesson

noelwright72: And I know not what divine surmise. Leapt up like fire in my eyes, But I know her smiling suddenly stopped, And a curtain between us blankly dropped, And she passed me by as if I were A man invisible to her. Alice Duer Miller

PersonalDevel_: “If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends — you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.” -Alice Duer Miller Via Wise Life Lesson

Badass4Mothers: “Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this, while their innate tendency to appeal to force renders them peculiarly unfit for the task of government.” - Alice Duer Miller, “Why We Oppose Votes for Men” 1915

PersonalDevel_: “If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends — you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.” -Alice Duer Miller Via Wise Life Lesson

PersonalDevel_: “If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends — you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.” -Alice Duer Miller Via Wise Life Lesson

PersonalDevel_: “If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends — you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.” -Alice Duer Miller Via Wise Life Lesson

numbalum89: “It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means.” ~ Alice Duer Miller

WiseLifeQuotes2: “If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends — you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.” -Alice Duer Miller Via Wise Life Lesson

PersonalDevel_: “If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends — you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.” -Alice Duer Miller Via Wise Life Lesson



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