"Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built around finding and satisfying the romantic models we grew up with."

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"Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built around finding and satisfying the romantic models we grew up with."

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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."

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

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"Silence is an ornament for women."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers."

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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."

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