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"One of the saddest things I hear as I travel is "I don't know enough to be a feminist." Or even "I'm not smart enough to be a feminist." It breaks my heart."
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"You may spend fifty or eighty years of your life believing in something totally false, and this is what happens to most people!"

"The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes."

"A danger foreseen is half avoided."

"Self-awareness happens when we become aware of other people, things and places around us and how we are all connected."

"There are enough real enemies and threats in the world without having to invent imaginary ones."

"The average adult has had sex innumerable times more than they have formed an opinion of their own."

"What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole its body brevity and wit its soul."

"When we take the time to break free from the tyranny of Time and learn to listen to the sound of unspoken words, we discern the hot air behind the frenzy of the wheeling and dealing around. ['Wheeling and dealing']"

"But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful."

"When it came to adults, it was better not to talk. They had a way of hearing one thing and processing it as something else. No reason to give them an excuse to hurt you."
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"All my years campaigning have given me one clear message: Voting isn't the most we can do, but it is the least. To have a democracy, you have to want one. Still, I realize this fully only by looking back."

"No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office."

"I'm not advocating a competition for who has it toughest. The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together. It's time to take equal pride in breaking all the barriers."

"Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world."
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