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“Some of the 'New Women' writers will some day start an idea that men and women should be allowed to see each other asleep before proposing or accepting. But I suppose the New Woman won't condescend...”
“The free mind, unafraid of labor, presses on to attain the good.”
“But let that not be the moral of my story. True happiness doesn't come from simply getting married. I don't believe a woman's worth should be measured by whether or not she's married.”
“My belief is that if we live another century or so I am talking of the common life which is the real life and not of the little separate lives which we live as individuals and have five hundred a...”
“I used to be the queen of domesticity, a Good Housekeeping cover model in the making. I was also an ambitious professional. These two identities had always been on a collision course. But I was obl...”
“Many women experience a sense of pressure that men rarely dothe pressure to succeed at work and to keep things running smoothly at home, especially when children arrive on the scene.”
“Women will not become free until they stop being afraid. We will not begin to experience real change in our lives, real emancipation, until we begin the process -almost a de-brainwashing- of workin...”
“My hope for the future, not just in the music industry, but in every young girl I meetis that they all realize their worth and ask for it.”
“Female friendships that work are relationships in which women help each other belong to themselves.”
“I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your silences will not protect you.... What are the words you do not yet have? What a...”
“There's no love as real as that of a girl and her best friend.”
“From this point of view, science - the real game in town - is rhetoric, a series of efforts to persuade relevant social actors that one's manufactured knowledge is a route to a desired form of very...”
“Man corrupt everything, say Shug. He on your box of grits, in your head, and all over the radio. He try to make you think he everywhere. Soon as you think he everywhere, you think he God. But he ai...”
“If women ruled the world there would be no wars. But, we all would have been aborted.”
“Women deserve better than organizations bearing the names of racist rapists funding million dollar campaigns on subway trains. These wealthy middle aged white men tell us what to do with our bodies...”
“The militancy of men, through all the centuries, has drenched the world with blood, and for these deeds of horror and destruction men have been rewarded with monuments, with great songs and epics.”
“Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.”
“Just because you support equal rights doesn't mean you are a feminist.”
“...the consequences of militancy do not disappear when the need for militancy is over. Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.”
“But I am, personally, not a gambler. I wouldnt spend 1 on the lottery, let alone take a punt on a pregnancy. The stakes are far, far too high. I cant agree with a society that would force me to bet...”
