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“This life is a war we are not yet winning for our daughters' children. Don't do your enemies' work for them. Finish your own.”

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Book:Moon Is Always Female

Source: Moon Is Always Female

“[Addressing a group of military officers:] Are you a feminist? Oh ... wrong question. I should have asked, 'Are you a father?' When your daughter loses her job to a clearly less-qualified man, you will discover you are a feminist.”

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Author:Estelle Ramey

“My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.”

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Author:Erica Jong

“The modern era of feminism is how you track that at its beginning. It manifested itself in crazy ways. Parents would try raising their daughters in blue rooms with GI Joe and try raising their sons in pink rooms with Barbie to see what would happen, and they were shocked.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too.”

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Author:Louise Brown

“Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.”

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Author:Isabel Allende

“It's important to remember that feminism is no longer a group of organizations or leaders. It's the expectations that parents have for their daughters, and their sons, too. It's the way we talk about and treat one another. It's who makes the money and who makes the compromises and who makes dinner. It's a state of mind. It's the way we live now.”

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Book:Loud and Clear

Source: Loud and Clear

“I hope that by modeling feminism in my own life, work and relationships that it will haut become an organic part of my daughter's life. But I'm also fully prepared for her to become a Republican as a way to rebel as a teenager - that would be just my luck!”

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Author:Jessica Valenti

“Angry mothers raise daughters fierce enough to fight wolves.”

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Book:The Empress of Salt and Fortune

Source: The Empress of Salt and Fortune

“We are the daughters of the witches they burnt. We shall rise from our ashes, unscathed and larger than ever”

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Book:Of Vengeance and Ashes

Source: Of Vengeance and Ashes

“Her true skin color was a light beige, like the skin of pencil shavings, and was soft as it was when her mother lotioned her before bed every night. Stephanie did not have the memory of those nights, but they were the reason she subconsciously pumped two servings of shea butter before she sleeps. Mothers lived in a child forever, the way their own mothers lived in them. With one mother’s kiss, a child received a recipe made by a thousand seasoned souls—a generation of love transferred in everything a woman did.”

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Book:A Happy Ghost

Source: A Happy Ghost