"I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40."

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"I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40."

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

Mark Twain, American Author

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Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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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."

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

"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."

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

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

"A woman, a dog and a walnut tree, the more you beat them, the better they be."

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

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"The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it."

"It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption."

"I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere."

"Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost."