"Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is."

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"Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is."

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Eleanor Roosevelt, American First Lady

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

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

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"The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin."

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"The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving."

People

"I sometimes wonder if I am crisscrossing my father's ghostly paths and we are entering same towns or roadside diners or the black ribbons of highways that gleam in the night rain. As if we were images in a time-lapse photograph."

Reflection

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"I think we each come out of the womb with some unique way of looking at the world and if we don't express it, we loose faith in ourselves."

Identity

"I've noticed that great political leaders are energized by conflict. I'm energized by listening to people's stories and trying to figure out shared solutions. That's the work of an organizer."

Leadership

"All my years campaigning have given me one clear message: Voting isn't the most we can do, but it is the least. To have a democracy, you have to want one. Still, I realize this fully only by looking back."

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"This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race because they are easy and visible differences have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labor on which this system still depends. We are talking about a society in which there will be no roles other than those chosen or those earned. We are really talking about humanism."

Society

"It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate."

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