"It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested our standard of morals and the purity of our blood."

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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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"There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature."

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"At the age of about eight years, if he is a boy, she turns him over to his father for more Spartan training."

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"More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material."

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"The family was not only the social unit, but also the unit of government."

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"No one who is at all acquainted with the Indian in his home can deny that we are a polite people."

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"He sees no need for setting apart one day in seven as a holy day, since to him all days are God's."

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"Our people, though capable of strong and durable feeling, were not demonstrative in their affection at any time, least of all in the presence of guests or strangers."

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"The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe."

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"The Indian was a religious man from his mother's womb."

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"The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church."

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