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"There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass."

"There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner."

"Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company."

"Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?"

"A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression."
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"Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy; our existence challenges its life."


"I'd make a comment at a meeting and nobody would even acknowledge me. Then some man would say the same thing and they'd all nod."


"What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality."


"There is no private domain of a person's life that is not political, and there is no political issue that is not ultimately personal."


"Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture."


"As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea."
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