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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."

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

"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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"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."


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


"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."


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


"Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond."


"Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy; our existence challenges its life."
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