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"We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present."
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"Let each person decide his or her fate."
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"Gender matters everywhere in the world. And I would like today to ask what we begin to dream about and plan for a different world. A fairer world. A world of happier women who are truer to themselves. And this is how to start: We must raise our daughters differently. We must also raise our sons differently."
"She felt a sense that things were in order, the way they were meant to be, and that even if they tumbled down once in a while, in the end they would come back together again."
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"If we do something over and over again, it becomes normal. If we see the same thing over and over again, it becomes normal."
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