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"Every day in life we're told who this is and who that is. But when we sit we're all the same when we remove our hat."

"I am a scientist who studies the human mind, including the sexual differences in mental faculties, and I am telling you, ten female thinkers can teach humanity lessons equivalent to the teachings of a hundred male thinkers of history."

"Not all single women want to be married. Not all boys like football. Not all homemakers like to cook. Not all messy people are lazy. And not all the obese are gluttons. There are glands and diabetes and a dozen conditions you never heard of that may account for things. Put your sermon through the counter-stereotype sieve."

"No wonder women don't negotiate as often as men. It's like trying to cross a minefield backward in high heels."
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"Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it."

"When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress?"

"Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds that demonstrate inferiority because we are all inferior to the ideals of humanness we have erected."

"All men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, and their codes."

"Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to escape?"

"To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, is more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons."

"Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, their codes."
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