"Cancers of all types among women are increasing."

Gro Harlem Brundtland, Norwegian Politician

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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."

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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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"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."

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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."

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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."

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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."

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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."

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"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked."

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"As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs."

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