"The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters."

Constance Baker Motley, American Activist

Woman, Women, Rights

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"The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters."

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"Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!"

Eleanor Roosevelt, American First Lady

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"Every casting director I've met is a woman."

Cameron Diaz, American Actress

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"Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children."

Donald Rumsfeld, American Politician

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"What Democratic congressmen do to their women staffers, Republican congressmen do to the country."

Bill Maher, American Comedian

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"As I see with Lori's testimony, you say what good could come out of all these abortions and all what she's been through? But she has been a part of a new Bible for women, a mentoring Bible."

Jim Bakker, American Celebrity

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"Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our "beauty" so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air."

Naomi Wolf, American Author

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"My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception."

Jimmy Carter, American President

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"The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman."

Henry James, American Writer

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"Women are clear-headed, they are more creative and for this reason, sometimes, also more fragile."

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"One is not born a woman, but becomes one."

Simone de Beauvoir, French Writer

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"When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea."

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"In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease."

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"I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s."

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"I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial."

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"My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves."

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"Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!"

"Every casting director I've met is a woman."

"Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children."

"What Democratic congressmen do to their women staffers, Republican congressmen do to the country."

"As I see with Lori's testimony, you say what good could come out of all these abortions and all what she's been through? But she has been a part of a new Bible for women, a mentoring Bible."

"Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our "beauty" so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air."

"My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception."

"The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman."

"Women are clear-headed, they are more creative and for this reason, sometimes, also more fragile."

"One is not born a woman, but becomes one."

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"Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world."

"The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished."

"When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea."

"In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease."

"I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s."

"I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial."

"My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves."

"There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society."

"The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath."