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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."

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

"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."

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

"A woman, a dog and a walnut tree, the more you beat them, the better they be."

"The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women."
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"In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: 'Is there someone new?'"

"Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire."

"My hand does the work and I don't have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. It's like a dam in the brain that bursts."

"I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women."

"I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness."
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