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"Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!"

"Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children."

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

"The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman."

"Women are clear-headed, they are more creative and for this reason, sometimes, also more fragile."
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"Do you not yet understand what has made woman what she is? Then see what the sickly taste and perverted judgment of man now admires in woman."


"Much is said about the burdens and responsibilities of married men. Responsibilities indeed there are, if they but felt them: but as to burdens what are they?"


"It is high time to compel man by the might of right to give woman her political, legal and social rights. She will find her own sphere in accordance with her capacities, powers and tastes; and yet she will be woman still."


"It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so."


"From the cradle to the grave she is subject to the power and control of man. Father, guardian, or husband, one conveys her like some piece of merchandise over to the other."


"In the laws of the land, she has no rights; in government she has no voice. And in spite of another principle recognized in this Republic, namely, that 'taxation without representation is tyranny,' she is taxed without being represented."


"The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what? What has man ever done that woman, under the same advantages could not do?"


"Cultivate the frontal portion of her brain as much as that of man is cultivated, and she will stand his equal at least. Even now, where her mind has been called out at all, her intellect is as bright, as capacious, and as powerful as his."


"I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts."
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