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- I never set out to write a book to change women's lives, to change history. It's like, 'Who, me?' Yes, me. I did it. And I'm not that different from other women. ... Maybe my power and glory was that I could speak my truth as a woman and it was the truth of every woman.
- Betty Friedan (1921 - 2006)
- If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based.
- Betty Friedan (1921 - 2006)
- I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
- Rebecca West (1892 - 1983), 1913
- The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, 'It's a girl.'
- Shirley Chisholm (1924 - 2005)
- Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opressors.
- Evelyn Cunningham
- When I see the elaborate study and ingenuity displayed by women in the pursuit of trifles, I feel no doubt of their capacity for the most herculean undertakings.
- Julia Ward Howe (1819 - 1910)
- Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
- Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924)
- It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.
- Susan B. Anthony (1820 - 1906)
- Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.
- Joan Baez (1941 - ), Sexism Seen but not Heard, Los Angeles Times, 1974
- Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
- Susan B. Anthony (1820 - 1906)
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