"New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage."

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"New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage."

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"There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile."

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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."

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Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

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"In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits."

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"I entered the cosmetics industry because I wanted more women to use cosmetics made with safe, healthful ingredients."

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"Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them."

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"I'm sure not afraid of success and I've learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I'm afraid of now is of being someone I don't like much."

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"In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat."

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"America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security."

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"There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger."

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"The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself."

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"Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number."

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"The problem... is emblematic of what hasn't changed during the equal opportunity revolution of the last 20 years. Doors opened; opportunities evolved. Law, institutions, corporations moved forward. But many minds did not."

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"There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too."

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"All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child."

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