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Andrea Dworkin: The utopian male...

Andrea Dworkin: The utopian male...

The utopian male concept which is the premise of male pornography is this --since manhood is established and confirmed...

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Andrea Dworkin: All personal, psychological,...

Andrea Dworkin: All personal, psychological,...

All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source:...

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Erma Bombeck: If you can't...

Erma Bombeck: If you can't...

If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Phyllis McGinley: The trouble with...

Phyllis McGinley: The trouble with...

The trouble with gardening is that it does not remain an avocation. It becomes an...

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Dorothy Parker: Brevity is the...

Dorothy Parker: Brevity is the...

Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

Source: In Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell is...

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Georgie Anne Geyer: The more revolutions...

Georgie Anne Geyer: The more revolutions...

The more revolutions occur, the less things change.

Source: The New Latins,...

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Marilyn vos Savant: Skill is successfully...

Marilyn vos Savant: Skill is successfully...

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is...

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Judith Martin: If it's against...

Judith Martin: If it's against...

If it's against state law, it's generally considered a breach of Etiquette.

Source:...

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Eliza Wood Burhans Farnham: Each of the...

Eliza Wood Burhans Farnham: Each of the...

Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse,...

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Emmeline Pankhurst: We are here,...

Emmeline Pankhurst: We are here,...

We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become...

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Sally Kempton: I became a...

Sally Kempton: I became a...

I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist.

Source: Cutting...

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Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: The beginning is...

Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft: The beginning is...

The beginning is always today.

Source: From Journey in Word, ed. Cyndi Craven; an...

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Duration is not...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Duration is not...

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Source: Gift From the Sea,...

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Abigail Adams: Great necessities call...

Abigail Adams: Great necessities call...

Great necessities call out great virtues.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Hillary Rodham Clinton: Women are always...

Hillary Rodham Clinton: Women are always...

Women are always being tested . . . but ultimately, each of us has to define who we are individually and then do the...

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Ann Richards: [Our understanding is]...

Ann Richards: [Our understanding is]...

[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.

Source: Female vs....

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Margaret Mead: I was brought...

Margaret Mead: I was brought...

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the...

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Beatrice Hinkle: The creator does...

Beatrice Hinkle: The creator does...

The creator does not create only for the pleasure of creating but . . . he also desires to subdue other...

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Jane Harrison: Marriage, for a...

Jane Harrison: Marriage, for a...

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and...

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Johnnetta Betsch Cole: If folks can...

Johnnetta Betsch Cole: If folks can...

If folks can learn to be racist, then they can learn to be anti racist. If being sexist ain't genetic, then, dad gum,...

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