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One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

- Faye Wattleton

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Can man be free if woman be a slave?

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

I have a brain and a uterus and I use them both.

- Pat Schroeder

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The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.

- Betty Ford

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Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education, in vocational choice, and in social welcome of their best intellectual work for a number of generations.

- Anna Garlin Spencer

No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.

- Susan B. Anthony

To the highest leadership among women it is given to hold steadily in one hand the sacred vessels that hold the ancient sanctities of life, and in the other a flaming torch to light the way for oncoming generations.

- Anna Garlin Spencer

It is not alone the fact that women have generally had to spend most of their strength in caring for others that has handicapped them in individual effort; but also that they have almost universally had to care wholly for themselves.

- Anna Garlin Spencer

It is fair to assume that when women in the past have achieved even a second or third place in the ranks of genius they have shown far more native ability than men have needed to reach the same eminence. Not excused from the more general duties that constitute the cement of society, most women of talent have had but one hand free with which to work out their ideal conceptions.

- Anna Garlin Spencer

Anyone can see that to write Uncle Tom's Cabin on the knee in the kitchen, with constant calls to cooking and other details of housework to punctuate the paragraphs, was a more difficult achievement than to write it at leisure in a quiet room.

- Anna Garlin Spencer

Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.

- Madame de Stael

Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human.

- Robin Morgan

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It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain!

- Anna Garlin Spencer

Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.

- Anna Garlin Spencer

The universal social pressure upon women to be all alike, and do all the same things, and to be content with identical restrictions, has resulted not only in terrible suffering in the lives of exceptional women, but also in the loss of unmeasured feminine values in special gifts. The Drama of the Woman of Genius has too often been a tragedy of misshapen and perverted power.

- Anna Garlin Spencer

It is possible, reading standard histories, to forget half the population of the country. The explorers were men, the landholders and merchants men, the political leaders men, the military figures men. The very invisibility of women, the overlooking of women, is a sign of their submerged status.

- Howard Zinn

I think every woman should have a blowtorch.

- Julia Child

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All womanhood is hampered today because the world on which it is emerging is a world that tries to worship both virgins and mothers and in the end despises motherhood and despoils virgins.

- W. E. B. Du Bois

While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things,
The fate of empires and the fall of kings;
While quacks of State must each produce his plan,
And even children lisp the Rights of Man;
Amid this mighty fuss just let me mention,
The Rights of Woman merit some attention.

- Robert Burns

I am neither a man nor a woman but an author.

- Charlotte Bronte

I've run into more discrimination as a woman than as an Indian.

- Wilma Mankiller

Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

- Barbara De Angelis

The most direct cause of women's misfortune is poverty; demanding their freedom means above all demanding reform in the economy of society which will eradicate poverty and give everyone an education, a minimum standard of living, and the right to work. [1838]

- Zoe Gatti de Gamond

Just think -- guns have a constitutional amendment protecting them and women don't.

- Eleanor Smeal

Men build bridges and throw ra ilroads across deserts, and yet they contend successfully that the job of sewing on a button is beyond them. Accordingly, they don't have to sew buttons.

- Heywood Broun

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