"In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman."

Constance Baker Motley, American Activist

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"If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Women are made to be loved, not understood."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue."

Samuel Richardson, English Novelist

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"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself."

Anais Nin, American Author

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

Eleanor Roosevelt, American First Lady

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"The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic."

Roy Blount, Jr., American Writer

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"I think women are too valuable to be in combat."

Caspar Weinberger, American Public Servant

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"The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor."

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"The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant."

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"I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s."

Time

"My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks."

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"Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question."

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"When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea."

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"Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both."

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"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself."

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

"The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness."

"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."

"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness."

"Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic."

"I think women are too valuable to be in combat."

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"The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor."

"The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant."

"I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s."

"My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks."

"Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question."

"When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea."

"Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think."

"My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves."

"All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students."

"Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both."