"Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them."

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"Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them."

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"Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is."

Gloria Steinem, American Activist

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"Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form."

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"Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers."

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"The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women."

Simone de Beauvoir, French Writer

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"What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president? Never get married."

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"I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians."

John F. Kennedy, American President

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"If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare."

Gloria Steinem, American Activist

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"No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office."

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"In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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"Time is generally the best doctor."

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"Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor illis.(In this place I am a barbarian, because men do not understand me.)"

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"Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is."

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"Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers."

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"Time is generally the best doctor."

"Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor illis.(In this place I am a barbarian, because men do not understand me.)"

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