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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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"I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer."

bell hooks, American Critic

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"What Democratic congressmen do to their women staffers, Republican congressmen do to the country."

Bill Maher, American Comedian

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"Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go."

Erma Bombeck, American Journalist

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"Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown."

Erma Bombeck, American Journalist

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"Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our "beauty" so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air."

Naomi Wolf, American Author

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"Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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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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"This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle."

Music

"I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day."

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"Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle."

Death

"Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings."

Books

"I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle."

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"If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world."

Time

"The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought."

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"Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means."

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"When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on."

Criticism

"Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all."

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