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Emmeline Pankhurst: There is something...

Emmeline Pankhurst: There is something...

There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it...

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Sylvia Pankhurst: I have gone...

Sylvia Pankhurst: I have gone...

I have gone to war too . . . I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that people like you...

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Susan Faludi: As it turns...

Susan Faludi: As it turns...

As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment...

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Sally Kempton: And yet wherever...

Sally Kempton: And yet wherever...

And yet wherever there exists the display of power there is politics, and in women's relations with men there is a...

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Martha Beck: The really potent...

Martha Beck: The really potent...

The really potent part of love is that it allows you to carry around beliefs about yourself that make you feel...

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Barbara Walters: Success can make...

Barbara Walters: Success can make...

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna -- or it can smooth the edges, take away the...

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Julie Burchill: The freedom that...

Julie Burchill: The freedom that...

The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and...

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Barbara Ehrenreich: A free-enterprise economy...

Barbara Ehrenreich: A free-enterprise economy...

A free-enterprise economy depends only on markets, and according to the most advanced mathematical macroeconomic...

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Barbara Ehrenreich: The media have...

Barbara Ehrenreich: The media have...

The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great pendulum of...

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Peggy Noonan: You don't have...

Peggy Noonan: You don't have...

You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: That world is gone.

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Alice Embree: Shortly after the...

Alice Embree: Shortly after the...

Shortly after the turn of the century, America marshalled her resources, contracted painfully, and gave birth to the...

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Carolyn Heilbrun: I don't know...

Carolyn Heilbrun: I don't know...

I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's...

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Liz Carpenter: I have worked...

Liz Carpenter: I have worked...

I have worked all my life, wanted to work all my life, needed to work all my life.

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Carol Gilligan: In the different...

Carol Gilligan: In the different...

In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility,...

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Barbara Sher: You must go...

Barbara Sher: You must go...

You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has...

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Judith Martin: When you're in...

Judith Martin: When you're in...

When you're in love, you put up with things that, when you're out of love you cite.

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Andrea Dworkin: Erotica is simply...

Andrea Dworkin: Erotica is simply...

Erotica is simply high-class pornography; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged,...

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Renata Adler: Nothing defines the...

Renata Adler: Nothing defines the...

Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the...

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Margaret Bourke-White: If you banish...

Margaret Bourke-White: If you banish...

If you banish fear, nothing terribly bad can happen to you.

Source: In Words of...

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Natasha Josefowitz: My father died<br>many...

Natasha Josefowitz: My father died
many...

My father died
many years ago,
and yet when something special
happens to me,
I talk to him secretly
not...

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