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

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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."

Germaine Greer, Australian Activist

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"Every woman is just a different kind of problem."

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"I live in a house with four women. Just shut up and say, Yes, ma'am."

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"It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women - but he can think of them as he ought - as sisters, not as sparring partners."

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"There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass."

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"If we hold true to our ideals and our commitment to freedom, this generation of servicemen and women will have extended liberty to the Iraqi people, just as previous generations of Americans have all across the globe."

James Talent, American Politician

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"Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!"

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"I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives."

Salma Hayek, Mexican Actress

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"I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman."

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"The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women."

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"I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me."

Love

"As far as I am concerned sexuality no longer exists. I used to call this indifference serenity: all at once I have come to see it in another light-it is a mutilation; it is the loss of a sense. The lack of it makes me blind to the needs, the pains, and the joys of those who do possess it."

Philosophy

"It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time."

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"They use the pretext of avoiding war, to make you swallow any kind of peace, said Paul. They use the pretext of a revolution to involve us in any kind of war, said Jardinet."

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"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."

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"Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap."

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"One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away."

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"The feminine body is expected to be flesh, but discreetly so."

Society

"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion."

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