"Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it."

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"Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it."

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"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked."

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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."

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"In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits."

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

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"Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact."

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"Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it."

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"Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use."

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"Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us."

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"Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it."

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"As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going to become what you want to become or who you want to become. You are not going to live in the world you want to live in."

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"While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact."

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"Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so."

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"The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood; this project is the only firm and trustworthy groundwork for cooperation among males and all male bonding is based on it."

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"Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination."

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