"President Kennedy understood the importance of equal pay for equal work and signed historic legislation that gave women around the country hope that one day their wages would be on par with that of their male counterparts."

Woman, Women, Work, Hope, Country

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"President Kennedy understood the importance of equal pay for equal work and signed historic legislation that gave women around the country hope that one day their wages would be on par with that of their male counterparts."

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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."

Gloria Steinem, American Activist

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"No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference."

George Eliot, British Author

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"The real ornament of a woman is her character, her purity."

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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"The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Even if there are a lot women in films, there are few who are lesbians, that people know about."

Catherine Deneuve, French Actress

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"I hate women because they always know where things are."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before."

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"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself."

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"Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons."

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"President Kennedy understood the importance of equal pay for equal work and signed historic legislation that gave women around the country hope that one day their wages would be on par with that of their male counterparts."

Woman

"The State Energy Program, it provides grants to States and directs funding to State energy offices. The States use these grants to address their energy priorities, program funding to adopt emerging renewable energy and energy-efficient technologies."

Energy

"The Bush administration and Congressional Republicans have failed to bring up comprehensive energy reform or any piece of legislation for that matter that would lower gas prices, opting instead to give massive subsidies to the oil and gas industry."

Energy

"The Texas Energy Office's Loan Star Program has reduced building energy consumption and taxpayers' energy costs through the efficient operation of public buildings, saving taxpayers more than $172 million through energy efficiency projects."

Building

"1 month ago the American people stopped to remember the third anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq war. We thought first and foremost of the selflessness, patriotism and heroism by our troops, our National Guard and Reserves."

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"Expanding eligibility of family planning services to low-income women will maximize cost-savings to both federal and state governments, reduce the disparities in access to family planning services for low-income women, and decrease the incidence of abortion in the U.S."

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"Those most likely to be raped or sexually assaulted are young women between the ages of 16 and 24, women with their whole lives ahead of them. This one act of violence will alter their lives forever."

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"The moral issue here is whether the United States Congress is going to stand in the way of science and preclude scientists from doing lifesaving research."

Science

"Evening the playing field for women workers is a matter of fairness and with women now providing a significant share of their family's income, it is a family issue."

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"The best proof of the high quality of American beef is the continued negative BSE findings supported by the highest surveillance possible. The administration should be working to increase our surveillance of BSE, not scaling it back."

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