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Holly Near

"The women's movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we'll never be able to count."

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"The women's movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we'll never be able to count."

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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."

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"Every woman is just a different kind of problem."

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"There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass."

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"Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!"

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"I hate women because they always know where things are."

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"When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier."

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"In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits."

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"He's 85 and he's met another woman. Still, at 85, why ever not?"

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"We found that just by the way we stood, affected women dramatically, and if you look at our show, you'll see that we always stood with our legs open our fists on hips and our bat bulges forward, which had a profound effect on women!"

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"I think, though, as African-American women, we are always trained to value our community even at the expense of ourselves, and so we attempt to protect the African-American community."

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"When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs."
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"It is essential that men start being interested in and excited by how women think."
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"I'm not allowing my perspective to be dictated by the dominant culture."
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"To be always in a state of wonder is a kind of sensitivity that can sometimes be an extraordinary blessing and sometimes a real pain."
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"To my great surprise and pleasure, I have had dinner with most of the people living with whom I would like to have dinner."
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"To come to a concert and hear a lot of songs from a female perspective should not make men say, 'Oh well, that's for women'."
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"My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies."
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"You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they'll eat it."
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"A lot of artists say, I'm not political. People are afraid of this word."
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"If I didn't think and feel the way I think and feel, I couldn't sing the way I sing. And I like singing the way I sing."
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