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"It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment."

"Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation."

"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."

"Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk."

"The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty."

"I suppose I sometimes used to act like I wasn't a human being... Sometimes I look back at myself and remember things I used to say, or my hairstyle, and I cringe."
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"I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover."

"Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life."

"I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I'd fall in love with a woman. Damn."

"Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it."

"English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men."

"We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children."

"Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves."

"Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate."

"If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism."

"The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed."
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