Indira Gandhi
Politician
"To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality."
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Rivalry
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Elbert Hubbard
Writer, Publisher
"Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader."
Louisa May Alcott
Novelist, Poet
"Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one's conquests."
Plutarch
Philosopher, Historian
"Among real friends there is no rivalry or jealousy of one another, but they are satisfied and contented alike whether they are equal or one of them is superior."
John Ruskin
Art Critic, Writer
"And remember, child, that nothing is ever done beautifully, which is done in rivalship; or nobly, which is done in pride."
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"Women do not disapprove their rivals; they hate them."
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"In the critics' vocabulary, the work 'precursor' is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemics or rivalry."
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"Such seems to be the disposition of man, that whatever makes a distinction produces rivalry."
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"He had the superficial kindness of a good-humored, self-satisfied nature, that fears no rivalry, and has encountered no contrarieties."
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"Love is a usually force able of transforming an rivalry into friend."
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