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"If you think about the way the hearings were structured, the hearings were really about Thomas' race and my gender."
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"Oleanders have attractive flowers, they decorate nature beautifully, but they are poisonous; and a woman is an oleander; it's all right to watch her once in a while, but then you must walk away without touching her; if you ever try to taste her even once, you'll head for hell!"
"Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?"
"Most often women want happiness and men want wilderness."
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"Men as a class appear to be 'at risk, ' maybe even at high risk."
"And a woman by herself is missing a man, while a man by himself is his own master. Trousers. That's the secret. Trousers and a pair of socks. I never dreamed it was like this. Put on trousers and the world changes. We walk different. We act different. I see these girls and I think: Idiot's Get yourself some trousers!"
"A man's shortcoming lies in the belief that he must always assert his manliness. A woman's shortcoming lies in the belief that she must always repress it."
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"I'll never forget the first time Davram took me by the scruff of my neck and showed me he was the stronger of us. It was magnificent! If a woman is stronger than her husband, she comes to despise him. She has the choice of either tyrannizing him or else making herself less in order not to make him less. If the husband is strong enough, though, she can be as strong as she is, as strong as she can grow to be."
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"Testifying has helped me understand that one individual's behavior and actions make a difference. That my actions are important to people other than myself."
"I resent the idea that people would blame the messenger for the message, rather than looking at the content of the message itself."
"The FBI has had a history of sex discrimination complaints brought against it, as well as race discrimination."
"I have no personal vendetta against Clarence Thomas. I seek only to provide the committee with information which it may regard as relevant."
"I thought that by saying no and explaining my reasons my employer would abandon his social suggestions. However, to my regret, in the following few weeks, he continued to ask me out on several occasions."
"But I think it would be irresponsible for me not to say what I really believe in my heart to be true - that there are some serious inequities that we face as women and that we can work to address these inequities."
"What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that certain people live with power and authority and they want to maintain it."
"Certainly my life will not ever be as private and discreet, and perhaps I should even use the word insulated, as it was before."
"During this period at the Department of Education, my working relationship with Judge Thomas was positive."
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