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"If only one generation takes action in raising their children as humans, rather than raising boys and girls, the future human civilization shall get rid of the sinister phenomenon of misogyny sooner than you can imagine."

"Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes."

"Today we must remove distinctions of high and low, rich and poor, caste or creed."

"If a man chooses to be promiscuous, he may still turn up his nose at promiscuity. He may still demand a woman be faithful to him, to save him from his own lust. But women have lust, too. Why should they be relegated to the position of custodian of emotions, watcher of the infants, feeder of soul,body and pride of man?"
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"We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story."

"Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man."

"Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret."

"When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans."

"I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self."

"The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof."
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