"If technology and medicine are used by women to have children or not to have children or to have healthier children - that's one thing. But if it's used to say, 'You're not a real woman unless you have a child; therefore, take all these dangerous hormones and have one at 54,' then it's another story."

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"If technology and medicine are used by women to have children or not to have children or to have healthier children - that's one thing. But if it's used to say, 'You're not a real woman unless you have a child; therefore, take all these dangerous hormones and have one at 54,' then it's another story."

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Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Develop a conscience to live by."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"They told me that nothing was a sin, just a poor life choice. Poor impulse control. That nothing is evil. Any concept of right versus wrong, according to them, is merely a cultural construct relative to one specific time and place. They said that if anything should force us to modify our personal behavior it should be our allegiance to a social contract, not some vague, externally imposed threat of flaming punishment."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

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"Your moral foundation and character currently depend on what you hear."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"To exchange all the goodness and grace of every life in Omelas for that single, small improvement: to throw away the happiness of thousands for the chance of the happiness of one: that would be to let guilt within the walls indeed."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

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"Morality exists in the neurons as a natural sensation. Religion only tries to codify it."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"Life wants you to know that feelings are more important than facts, and you should never hurt someone just to be right."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"Sometimes it is better to say 'no' and lose your job than it is to say 'yes' and lose your soul."

Todd Stocker, American Author

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"The only crime is pride."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"Ethics are the things that say, 'Don't stick your finger in the socket.' The world says, 'It's okay because we've shut off the electricity.' And at the point that we've chosen to listen to the world and ignore our ethics, we say, 'I'm having a really hard time getting back up."

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"Law and justice are not always the same."

Justice

"All my years campaigning have given me one clear message: Voting isn't the most we can do, but it is the least. To have a democracy, you have to want one. Still, I realize this fully only by looking back."

Politics

"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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"I'm not advocating a competition for who has it toughest. The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together. It's time to take equal pride in breaking all the barriers."

Society

"The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters."

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

Woman

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

Woman

"The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn."

Man

"Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world."

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"I will no longer be referred to as Miss Steinem of Ms. magazine."

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