Creative Quotations from Estelle Ramey (1917-2006)

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Estelle Ramey
(1917-2006) born on Aug 23

US physician, physiologist. In addition to research and teaching her popular articles include the "Fragility of the Male Sex", (in Reader's Digest) and "Male Cycles - They Have Them Too", (in Ms.).

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. . . what is human and the same about the males and females classified as Homo sapiens is much greater than the differences.

I don't mind . . . the fun and games of being treated like a fragile flower. But as a physiologist working with the unromantic scientific facts of life, I find it hard to delude myself about feminine frailty.

We will have equality when a female schlemiel moves ahead as fast as a male schlemiel.

Women's chains have been forged by men, not by anatomy.

Anyone seeing women at a bargain-basement sale where aggression is viewed as appropriate, even endearing, sees aggression that would make Attila the Hun turn pale.

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	"Men's Monthly Cycles (They Have Them Too, You Knowj," in "The First Ms. Reader," ed. Francine Klagsbrun, 1972.
R:	In "The Prime of Ms. America," by Janet Harris, 1975.
A:	In "2,715 One-Line Quotations for Speakers, Writers & Raconteurs," by Edward F. Murphy, 1981.
N:	In "First Ms. Reader," ed. Francine Klagsbrun, 1972.
K:	In "Are Men and Women Different?," by Judith Viorst, "Redbook," Nov 1978.