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| Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn’t have what it takes." They will say, "Women don’t have what it takes." ~ Clare Boothe Luce |
| I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a door mat or a prostitute. ~ Rebecca West, "Mr Chesterton in Hysterics: A Study in Prejudice," |
| Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. ~ Author Unknown |
| The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, "It’s a girl." ~ Shirley Chisholm |
| Women belong in the house… and the Senate. ~ Author Unknown |
| I think it’s about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we’ve been voting for boobs long enough. ~ Clarie Sargent |
| Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels. ~ Faith Whittlesey |
| Never let the hand you hold, hold you down. ~ Author Unknown |
| I wish someone would have told me that, just because I’m a girl, I don’t have to get married. ~ Marlo Thomas |
| Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opressors. ~ Evelyn Cunningham |
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| Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There’s just too much fraternizing with the enemy. ~ Henry Kissinger |
| The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. ~ Roseanne Barr |
| Feminism is the radical notion that women are people. ~ Cheris Kramarae and Paula Treichler |
| I am woman! I am invincible! I am pooped! ~ Author Unknown |
| I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. ~ Anaïs Nin |
| Man endures pain as an undeserved punishment; woman accepts it as a natural heritage. ~ Author Unknown |
| Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. ~ Timothy Leary |
| I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament. ~ Alanis Morissette, quoted in |
| I’m tough, I’m ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay. ~ Madonna Ciccone |
| I was told that whistling wasn’t ladylike, but I knew even then that women were simply not supposed to be that happy. ~ Anonymous, quoted in |
| You don’t have to be anti-man to be pro-woman. ~ Jane Galvin Lewis |
| When I see the elaborate study and ingenuity displayed by women in the pursuit of trifles, I feel no doubt of their capacity for the most herculean undertakings. ~ Julia Ward Howe |
| Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. ~ Joseph Conrad |
| History is herstory too. ~ Author Unknown |
| Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths. ~ Lois Wyse |
| No woman is required to build the world by destroying herself. ~ Rabbi Sofer |
| I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist. ~ Sally Kempton |
| It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union…. Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less. ~ Susan B. Anthony |
| One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man. ~ Marlo Thomas |
| There is a special place in hell for women who do not help other women. ~ Madeleine K. Albright |