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"In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman."
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"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked."
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"Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!"
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"There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile."
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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."
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"Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers."
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"No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference."
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"The real ornament of a woman is her character, her purity."
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"In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits."
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"One is not born a woman, but becomes one."
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"I entered the cosmetics industry because I wanted more women to use cosmetics made with safe, healthful ingredients."
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"In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions."
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"I soon found law school an unmitigated bore."
Law
"New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere."
Cultural
"By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader."
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"Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world."
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"Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both."
Sexuality
"Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white."
Life
"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
"There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society."
Society
"I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has."
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