"I couldn't stand the idea of a woman having to have a single pure life and a man being able to have a double life, one pure and one not."

Equality, Gender, Morality, Society, Judgment

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"I couldn't stand the idea of a woman having to have a single pure life and a man being able to have a double life, one pure and one not."

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"Let's not judge people by the color of their skin but those who makes us feel we are different from each other.- Abdulazeez Henry Musa."

Abdulazeez Henry Musa, Nigerian Author

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"I am not red or blue. I am red, white and blue. Those are the same colors in my body (my heart, blood and veins). I am only human, and the human race is the only race in which I am an active participant - mind, body and soul."

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"Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves."

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"There was never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male except his superior muscle."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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"No other being is lesser human than the one who thinks of others as such."

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"I have a little moral trouble with the term "mankind, as it possesses an innate gender bias, which I cannot approve of, hence, I prefer the term "humanity over it, and the term "human over "man."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"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."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

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"Woman cannot be free until man's mind is liberated from the megalomania! His self-exaltation is the mother of the gender inequalities. Till we eliminate his exacerbated narcissism, woman will remain unfree!"

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"We don't live in a society that has genuine equality, and every woman we know has experienced that."

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"Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing."

Writing

"I moved in front of the medicine cabinet. If I looked in the mirror while I did it, it would be like watching somebody else, in a book or a play."

Identity

"Slowly I swam up from the bottom of a black sleep."

Healing

"What obsession do men have for destruction and murder? Who do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled 'enemy?"

War

"Brave love, dreamnot of staunching such strict flame, but come,lean to my wound; burn on, burn on."

Love

"I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here."

Emotion

"This boy - his name was Eric - said he thought it disgusting the way all the girls at my college stood around on the porches under the porch lights and in the bushes in plain view, necking madly before the one o'clock curfew, so everybody passing by could see them. A million years of evolution, Eric said bitterly, and what are we? Animals."

Society

"Feel oddly barren. My sickness is when words draw in their horns and the physical world refuses to be ordered, recreated, arranged and selected. I am a victim of it then, not a master."

Expression

"This is a case without a body.The body does not come into it at all."

Mystery

"I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree."

Imagination