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"Most of the women who have offered themselves for public office over the years have done so, I believe, more because of the 'dirt' than in spite of it."
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"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."
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"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness."
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"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked."
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"The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue."
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"Every woman is just a different kind of problem."
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"Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!"
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"An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity."
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"A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me."
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"I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer."
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"Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation."
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"I believe the preservation of the home in the future lies almost entirely in the hands of men."
Home
"If they are willing to give women economic freedom in that home, if they are willing to live by the standard they wish women to live by, then homes will be preserves."
Woman
"Most of the women who have offered themselves for public office over the years have done so, I believe, more because of the 'dirt' than in spite of it."
Woman
"It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men; for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage; and they must even change their name."
Change
"I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels."
Man
"I owed it to my father that I was elected to Parliament in the first place, but I owed it to my mother that I stuck it out once I got there."
Family
"When I first came to the House of Commons and walked out into the lobby, men sprang to their feet. I asked them to sit down since I'd come to walk around. I didn't want them doing me favours."
Man
"I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality."
Equality
"Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone."
Life
"Whatever is dirty, it is women's job to clean up, or drive some man to clean up, and that goes for everything from cellar to senate."
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