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"No Gods, No Masters."
~Margaret Sanger

"I don't have the time everyday to put on makeup. I need that
time to clean my rifle."
~Henriette Mantel

"People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that
differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute."
~Rebecca West

"Just being in a room with myself is almost more stimulation
than I can bear."
~Kate Braverman

"I base most of my fashion sense on what doesn't itch."
~Gilda Radner

"I am a marvelous housekeeper.
Every time I leave a man, I keep his house." ~Zsa Zsa Gabor

"If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties?
How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose
around your neck?" ~Linda Ellerbee

"I suppose I could have stayed home, baked cookies and had teas."
~Hillary Clinton

"One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills;
besides, the extreme thing is generally the true thing."
~Emma Goldman

"My reaction to porno films is as follows:
After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw.
After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again
as long as I live.
~Erica Jong

"Begin somewhere.
You cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do."
~Liz Smith

"No one can make you feel inferior
without your consent."
~Eleanor Roosevelt

"I have a brain and a uterus,
and I use both."
~Patricia Schroeder

"One never notices what has been done;
one can only see what remains to be done.
~Marie Curie, Nobel Prize winning Physicist

"When I am alone I am not aware of my race or my sex,
both in need of social contexts for definition.
~Maxine Hong Kingston

"Sometimes, I feel discrimated against
but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me.
How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company?
It's beyond me.
~Zora Neale Hurston

"We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way.
If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be calling us "baby".
~Elizabeth Janeway


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