"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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"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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"There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile."

Honore De Balzac, French Novelist

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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."

Gloria Steinem, American Activist

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"No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference."

George Eliot, British Author

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"The real ornament of a woman is her character, her purity."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

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"In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits."

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian Actor

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"I entered the cosmetics industry because I wanted more women to use cosmetics made with safe, healthful ingredients."

Gloria Swanson, American Actress

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"The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Even if there are a lot women in films, there are few who are lesbians, that people know about."

Catherine Deneuve, French Actress

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

Family

"But to have a friend, and to be true under any and all trials, is the mark of a man!"

Friendship

"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."

Time

"Our old age was in some respects the happiest period of life."

Life

"The red man divided mind into two parts, - the spiritual mind and the physical mind."

Man

"That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office and function, since it is his creative and protecting power which alone approaches the solemn function of Deity."

Power

"The logical man must either deny all miracles or none, and our American Indian myths and hero stories are perhaps, in themselves, quite as credible as those of the Hebrews of old."

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

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"There was no religious ceremony connected with marriage among us, while on the other hand the relation between man and woman was regarded as in itself mysterious and holy."

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"Among us all men were created sons of God and stood erect, as conscious of their divinity."

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