"To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice."

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"To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice."

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"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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Eleanor Roosevelt, American First Lady

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"There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile."

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"Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form."

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"No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference."

George Eliot, British Author

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

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"I stopped playing in Jr. events when I was 12 and played women's."

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"To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice."

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"Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form."

"We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture."

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

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"Ideas move rapidly when their time comes."

"To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice."