"I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women."

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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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"Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!"

Eleanor Roosevelt, American First Lady

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"There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile."

Honore De Balzac, French Novelist

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"Women are like ovens. We need 5 to 15 minutes to heat up."

Sandra Bullock, American Actress

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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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"We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture."

Kate Millett, American Activist

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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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"Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers."

Gloria Steinem, American Activist

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"No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference."

George Eliot, British Author

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"If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"I haven't strength of mind not to need a career."

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"No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking."

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"The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn today from the humanities as well as from the scientists."

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"The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers."

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"The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community."

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"I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world."

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"Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make."

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"Women are like ovens. We need 5 to 15 minutes to heat up."

"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."

"We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture."

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"Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers."

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"I haven't strength of mind not to need a career."

"No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking."

"The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn today from the humanities as well as from the scientists."

"Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future."

"We grow in time to trust the future for our answers."

"The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences."

"The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers."

"The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community."

"I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world."

"Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make."