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Abigail Adams:
If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.

 

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It's important to remember that feminism is no longer a group of organizations or leaders. It's the expectations that parents have for their daughters, and their sons, too. It's the way we talk about and treat one another. It's who makes the money and who makes the compromises and who makes the dinner. It's a state of mind. It's the way we live now

 

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What I am proud of, what seems so simply clear, is that feminism is a way to fight for justice, always in short supply.

 

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Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.

 

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It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.

The Feminine Mystique, 1963

 

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If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based.

speech, New York City, January 20, 1974

 

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Women do not have to sacrifice personhood if they are mothers. They do not have to sacrifice motherhood in order to be persons. Liberation was meant to expand women's opportunities, not to limit them. The self-esteem that has been found in new pursuits can also be found in mothering.

 

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We've got a generation now who were born with semiequality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad. We're working. We have our attache' cases and our three piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away. Things are going to have to get worse before they join in fighting the battle.

 

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Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels.



Gloria Steinem:

 

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Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.

 

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This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race because they are easy and visible differences have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labour in which this system still depends. We are talking about a society in which there will be no roles other than those chosen or those earned. We are really talking about humanism

 

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You don't have to be anti-man to be pro-woman

 

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No one can argue any longer about the rights of women. It's like arguing about earthquakes.

 

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When we talk about equal pay for equal work, women in the workplace are beginning to catch up. If we keep going at this current rate, we will achieve full equality in about 475 years. I don't know about you, but I can't wait that long.

 

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Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings. To me it's the latter, so I sign up.



Marlo Thomas:

 

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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.

 

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Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

 

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I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there.

 

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A feminist is a woman who does not allow anyone to think in her place.

 

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No one sex can govern alone. I believe that one of the reasons why civilization has failed so lamentably is that is had one-sided government.