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- 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
- 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
- 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 - )
- 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)
- Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human.
- Robin Morgan
- Men will often admit other women are oppressed but not you.
- Sheila Rowbotham
- Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.
- Grover Cleveland (1837 - 1908), 1905
- If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?
- Mary Astell
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