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Feminists wish women to seem like men. They're not men. Read Summary

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world. Read Summary

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself. Read Summary

I don't feel ashamed to be loud, which is an argument I've had with lots of men, who thought I was too sassy and unladylike. Read Summary

What a man is is an arrow into the future, and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from. Read Summary

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior. Read Summary

Women are in a position now to voice their opinion... women are getting empowered. The more power they get, the more voice they get to shift certain things around. Now I have a daughter, I understand. When I didn't have a daughter, I didn't understand. Read Summary

Women are better than men. Read Summary

You can't have it all, all at once. Who - man or woman - has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it. Read Summary

It is not women's liberation, it is women's and men's liberation. Read Summary

It's a facet of the gay rights movement that people don't think about enough. Why suddenly marriage equality? Because it wasn't until 1981 that the court struck down Louisiana's 'head and master rule,' that the husband was head and master of the house. Read Summary

Our goal in the '70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women: policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes. Read Summary

Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation. Read Summary

When I was growing up, there were no women in orchestras. Auditioners thought they could tell the difference between a woman playing and a man. Some intelligent person devised a simple solution: Drop a curtain between the auditioners and the people trying out. And, lo and behold, women began to get jobs in symphony orchestras. Read Summary

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. Read Summary

Female rappers get it the hardest. You have to be a girl, yet you have to be just as hard as the guys. I think some female rappers get scared out of the business before they can make it. Read Summary

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority. Read Summary

The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger. Read Summary

I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man. Read Summary

If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test. Read Summary