"Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression."

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"Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression."

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Eleanor Roosevelt, American First Lady

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Gloria Steinem, American Activist

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George Eliot, British Author

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Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

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Virginia Woolf, British Author

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Catherine Deneuve, French Actress

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Voltaire, French Writer

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Jane Austen, British Writer

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"Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My answer was: "A feeling that you have been honest with yourself and those around you a feeling that you have done the best you could both in your personal life and in your work and the ability to love others.""

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