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

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

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

Ovid, Roman 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."

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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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"What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce."

Mark Twain, American Author

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

Simone de Beauvoir, French Writer

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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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"What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce."

Mark Twain, American Author

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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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"If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits."

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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."

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

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

"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."

"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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"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."

"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."

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

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

"I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation."

"If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits."

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

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

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