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"The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed."

Germaine Greer, Australian Activist

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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."

bell hooks, American Critic

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"Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy."

Erica Jong, American Novelist

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"This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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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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"The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it."

Eleanor Roosevelt, American First Lady

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"Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting."

Arthur Conan Doyle, British Writer

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"Silence is an ornament for women."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding."

Queen Marie of Romania, British Royalty

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"Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense."

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"When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations."

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"I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: "What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.""

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"Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness."

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"Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved."

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"The post of honour is a private station."

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"Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud."

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"Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt."

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"A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation."

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"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."

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