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Emeric Pressburger

"The ships we sank with women and children aboard. The lifeboats we shelled. Mmm... we were good at that."

Emeric Pressburger, Hungarian Filmmaker
Woman, Women, Children, Ships
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"The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed."

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"I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer."

bell hooks, American Critic
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"Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being."

Jane Austen, British Writer
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"You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy."

Erica Jong, American Novelist
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"This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room."

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

Ovid, Roman Poet
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"The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it."

Eleanor Roosevelt, American First Lady
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"Silence is an ornament for women."

Sophocles, Greek Poet
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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."

Gloria Steinem, American Activist
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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."

Gloria Steinem, American Activist
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"The ships we sank with women and children aboard. The lifeboats we shelled. Mmm... we were good at that."
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