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"Not all single women want to be married. Not all boys like football. Not all homemakers like to cook. Not all messy people are lazy. And not all the obese are gluttons. There are glands and diabetes and a dozen conditions you never heard of that may account for things. Put your sermon through the counter-stereotype sieve."

"Sometimes she would be engaged in a laboratory exercise or a seminar when the instructor would say, "Gentlemen, let's proceed," and sensing Ellie's frown would add, "Sorry, Miss Arroway, but I think of you as one of the boys." The highest compliment they were capable of paying was that in their minds she was not overtly female."

"I don't pretend there aren't biological differences, but I don't believe the desire for leadership is hardwired biology, not the desire to win or excel. I believe that it's socialization, that we're socializing our daughters to nurture and our boys to lead."

"When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior."

"Not all slaves are poor, and not all free men are rich."

"It's more pressure on women to - if they marry or partner with someone, to partner with the right person. Because you cannot have a full career and a full life at home with your children if you are also doing all of the housework and child care."
Explore more quotes by Maximilien Robespierre

"Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil."

"Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all."

"Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular."

"Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime."

"The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant."

"Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves."
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