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When people ask me why I am running as a woman, I always answer, "What choice do I have?"

 

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The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women.

 

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A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe; she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train

 

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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

 

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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

 

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thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

 

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It would be as wise to set up an accomplished lawyer to saw wood as a business as to condemn an educated and sensible woman to spend all her time boiling potatoes and patching old garments. Yet this is the lot of many a one who incessantly stitches and boils and bakes, compelled to thrust back out of sight the aspirations which fill her soul.

 

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Despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, I have not been able to answer... the great question that has never been answered: what does a woman want?

 

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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

 

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I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.

 

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Men, their rights, and nothing more

 

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The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of woman is her restoration to equal rights and privileges with

 

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Some leaders are born

 

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The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

 

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When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet. . . indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

 

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Why are women ... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

 

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I worshipped dead men for their strength,
Forgetting I was strong.

 

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Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk.

 

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In the faces of men and women I see God.

 

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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are