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History, real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... I read it a little as a duty; but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all - it is very tiresome. (spoken by Catherine Morland in 'Northanger Abbey')

 

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

 

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Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

 

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Women do not always have to write about women, or gay men about gay men. Indeed, something good and new might happen if they did not.

 

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Well behaved women rarely make history.

 

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When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do; then they act upon it, and if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it; if it fails, they generously give her the whole.
in Little Women

 

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The history of all times, and of today

 

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We want rights. The flour merchant, the house-builder, and the postman charge us no less on account of our sex; but when we endeavor to earn money to pay all these, then, indeed, we find the interest. [1855]

 

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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.

 

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The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

 

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Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.

 

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A free race cannot be born of slave mothers.

 

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If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.

 

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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 do not wish them to have power over men, but over themselves.



Maureen Reagan:

 

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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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Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift.

 

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Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.

 

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There is no occasion for women to consider themselves subordinate or inferior to men.

 

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What I know in life runs the gamut of the "feminist experience." The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in society.