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"The Miss America Pageant reinforces a belief that women are merely how they look and how they please."
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"Prejudice plunges you into a world of fear and hate. That's no way to live."
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"We get together with people because they're the same or because they're different, and in the end we split with them for exactly the same reasons."
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"Let me first state forthright that contrary to what we've often read in books and heard from preachers, when you are a woman, you don't feel like the Devil."
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"Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday's and today's school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did."
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"I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives."
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"A young man is the perfect soldier. He has great potential for aggression and a limited critical capacity-or none at all-with which to analyze it and judge how to channel it. Throughout history societies have found ways of using this store of aggression, turning their adolescents into soldiers, cannon fodder with which to conquer their neighbors or defend themselves against their aggressors."
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"Most of us have no sympathy with the rich idler who spends his life in pleasure without ever doing any work. But even he fulfills a function in the life of the social organism. He sets an example of luxury that awakens in the multitude a consciousness of new needs and gives industry the incentive to fulfill them."
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"No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences between them; and though different men may sometimes find it their interest to combine for the same purposes, they will never make it their pleasure."
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"Women most often experience shame as a web of layered, conflicting, and competing social-community expectations. The expectations dictate who we should be, what we should be, how we should be."
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"Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments. -The Subjection of Women."
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"The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin."
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"Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality."
Society
"If women have young children, they are one man away from welfare."
Woman
"Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry."
Man
"Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father."
Family
"Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one."
Life
"If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?"
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"The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary."
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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."
Woman
"I will no longer be referred to as Miss Steinem of Ms. magazine."
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