"You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try."

Ellen Richards, American Environmental Chemist

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

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it."

Eleanor Roosevelt, American First Lady

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"Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is."

Gloria Steinem, American Activist

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"Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form."

Gloria Steinem, American Activist

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"Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers."

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"What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"A woman, a dog and a walnut tree, the more you beat them, the better they be."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"If it is a relief to take your clothes off at night, be sure that something is wrong. Clothes should not be a burden. They should be a comfort and a protection."

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"We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general good, and we are not wise enough to know if we have fulfilled our mission or not."

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"New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions."

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"Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action."

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"I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of the best class."

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"The only trouble here is they won't let us study enough. They are so afraid we shall break down and you know the reputation of the College is at stake, for the question is, can girls get a college degree without ruining their health?"

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"Work is a sovereign remedy for all ills, and a man who loves to work will never be unhappy."

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