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- Feminism is the radical notion that women are people.
- Cheris Kramarae, and Paula Treichler
- I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
- Anaïs Nin (1903 - 1977)
- 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)
- Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.
- Lois Wyse
- No woman is required to build the world by destroying herself.
- Rabbi Sofer
- 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)
- I ask no favors for my sex.... All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet from off our necks.
- Sarah Moore Grimké (1792 - 1873)
- There are very few jobs that actually require a penis or vagina. All other jobs should be open to everybody.
- Florynce Kennedy
- 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
- I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.
- Gloria Steinem (1934 - )
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