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Rebecca West

"People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute."

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"People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute."

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"For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion."

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"People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights."

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"For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion."

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"When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else."

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"Happy the people whose annals are vacant."

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"What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy."

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"They're talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that's used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can't even smoke in bed."

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"Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you know, to send the right message to kids."

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"The tea baggers. The one thing they hate is when you call them racist. The other thing they hate is black people. But they won't say it."

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"God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide."
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"Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is."
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"The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots."
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"A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere."
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"It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion."
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