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James Cook

"Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due."

James Cook, British Explorer
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"The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed."

Germaine Greer, Australian Activist
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"I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer."

bell hooks, American Critic
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"Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being."

Jane Austen, British Writer
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"You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy."

Erica Jong, American Novelist
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"This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room."

Virginia Woolf, British Author
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"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked."

Ovid, Roman Poet
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"The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it."

Eleanor Roosevelt, American First Lady
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"Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting."

Arthur Conan Doyle, British Writer
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"Silence is an ornament for women."

Sophocles, Greek Poet
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"The reason good women like me and flock to my pictures is that there is a little bit of vampire instinct in every woman."

Theda Bara, American Actress
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