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“I can't be a rose in any man's lapel.”

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Author:Margaret Trudeau

“Give a woman a job and she grows balls.”

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Book:The Apple & Square in the Eye

Source: The Apple & Square in the Eye

“It's wonderful to watch pretty women with character grow beautiful.”

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Author:Mignon McLaughlin

“No man is ever as anti-feminist as a really feminine woman.”

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Author:Frank O'Connor

“When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.”

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Book:Shana Alexander's State-by-State guide to women's legal rights

Source: Shana Alexander's State-by-State guide to women's legal rights

“Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion?”

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Author:Erica Jong

“Young wives are the leading asset of corporate power. They want the suburbs, a house, a settled life, and respectability. They want society to see that they have exchanged themselves for something of value.”

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Author:Ralph Nader

“I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me.”

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Book:Lesbian Images: Essays

Source: Lesbian Images: Essays

“We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be calling us baby.”

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Author:Elizabeth Janeway

“The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.”

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Book:Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)

Source: Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)

“We fought very hard for feminism, for women's rights. What I'm seeing today is a very opposite thing. I don't know why, but I see women being put back in their place. And I hate it. We're losing all we worked so hard for.”

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Author:Stevie Nicks

“Feminism is a transformational force, an individual and social force. It is a way of looking at the world-a questioning of power/domination issues, an affirmation of women's energy.”

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Author:Charlotte Bunch

“We need a kind of feminism that aims not just to assimilate into the institutions that men have created over the centuries, but to infiltrate and subvert them.”

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Author:Barbara Ehrenreich

“What we need is a tough new kind of feminism with no illusions. Women do not change institutions simply by assimilating into them. We need a feminism that teaches a woman to say no - not just to the date rapist or overly insistent boyfriend but, when necessary, to the military or corporate hierarchy within which she finds herself. We need a kind of feminism that aims not just to assimilate into the institutions that men have created over the centuries, but to infiltrate and subvert them.”

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Author:Barbara Ehrenreich

“The idea of being a feminist-so many women have come to this idea of it being anti-male and not able to connect with the opposite sex-but what feminism is about is equality and human rights. For me that is just an essential part of my identity. I hope [Girls] contributes to a continuance of feminist dialogue”

“The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of Woman's Rights with all its attendant horrors on which her poor, feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feeling and propriety.”

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Author:Queen Victoria

“Feminism directly confronts the idea that one person or set of people [has] the right to impose definitions of reality on others.”

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Author:Liz Stanley

“Men will often admit other women are oppressed but not you.”

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Author:Sheila Rowbotham

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

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Book:Woman's Share in Social Culture

Source: Woman's Share in Social Culture

“Today the two hundred million men in our country are entering into a civilized new world...but we, the two hundred million women, are still kept down in the dungeon.”

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Author:Qiu Jin

“My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.”

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Author:Ani DiFranco

“Todays decisions are tomorrows realities. Remember you have three choices: take it, leave it or change it.”

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Author:Marsha Petrie Sue

“Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.”

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Book:HISTORY OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE Trilogy – Part 1 (Illustrated): The Origin of the Movement - Lives and Battles of Pioneer Suffragists (Including Letters, Articles, Conference Reports, Speeches, Court Transcripts & Decisions)

Source: HISTORY OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE Trilogy – Part 1 (Illustrated): The Origin of the Movement - Lives and Battles of Pioneer Suffragists (Including Letters, Articles, Conference Reports, Speeches, Court Transcripts & Decisions)

“Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.”

“True, the movement for woman's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones.”

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Author:Emma Goldman

“A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring.”

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Author:Jane Fonda

“Say to yourself, I am perfect, the way I am. Say to yourself, I am beautiful the way I am. Say to yourself, those who do not accept me the way I am, do not deserve me in their life.”

Source: The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

“Women are no sheep. Women are no fragile showpiece to be placed above the fire-place. Women of the thinking society are the builders of nations. Women of the sentient society are the builders of the world.”

Source: The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

“The representation of women in the society, especially through mass media has been the most delusional act ever done on the grounds of human existence.”

Source: The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

“The female brain itself is a highly intuitive emotion-processing machine, which when put to practice in the progress of the society, would do much more than any man can with all his analytical perspectives.”

Source: The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

“All the bloodsheds in human history have been caused by men, not women.”

Source: The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

“A society where feminine beauty is defined not by the human self on genuine intellectual and sentimental grounds, but by a computer software on the grounds of economic interest, is more dead than alive. It is a society of human bodies, not human beings.”

Book:The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

Source: The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

“You only fix something, when it’s broken. And you - are far from broken.”

Source: The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

“I am a scientist who studies the human mind, including the sexual differences in mental faculties, and I am telling you, ten female thinkers can teach humanity lessons equivalent to the teachings of a hundred male thinkers of history.”

Source: The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

“Given the same honor and dignity as men, women can build a much better and more harmonious world.”

Source: The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

“O my Courageous Sister! You have to become the beacon of hope for all women around you and then for the whole society.”

Source: The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

“Women of the thinking society are the builders of nations. Women of the sentient society are the builders of the world. And given the same honor and dignity as men, women can build a much better and more harmonious world. Harmony and conflict-solving run in their veins. Whereas men have evolved into more authoritarian creatures.”

Source: The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

“I am no feminist. Even though the term "feminism" is founded upon the basic principle of gender equality, it possesses its own fundamental gender bias, which makes it inclined towards the wellbeing of women, over the wellbeing of the whole society. And if history has shown anything, it is that such fundamental biases in time corrupt even the most glorious ideas and give birth to prejudice, bigotry and differentiation.”

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Book:The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

Source: The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

“Listen my dear sister! You only fix something, when it’s broken. And you - are far from broken. Say to yourself, I am perfect, the way I am. Say to yourself, I am beautiful the way I am. Say to yourself, those who do not accept me the way I am, do not deserve me in their life.”

Source: The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

“Remember, for a society to truly progress we don't need woman or man, we need a fully-fledged human - nothing short of that would do.”

Source: The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

“Gender equality is not a belief, it is not an idea - it is a key element of the society that will define whether we the humans shall march ahead towards glory and advancement, or sink into the abyss of an existential doom.”

Source: The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

“You are not born to follow the society, you are born to inspire it - you are born to teach it - you are born to build it.”

Source: The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

“Beauty is an illusion.”

Source: The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

“The world doesn't need a good woman who is meekly obedient to the uncivilized social norms that advocate female inferiority. The world needs those bad women who can think for themselves, to break the primeval norms of the society that consistently drag the human civilization back to the stone-age.”

Source: The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

“Any book that spreads weakness in the heart of one gender, and authoritarianism in the other, must be burnt to ashes.”

Source: The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

“Any nation that does not learn to place women on the same pedestal of respect and dignity as men, will never in a thousand years attain greatness.”

Source: The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

“For thousands of years, the dumb, uncivilized, stone-age society has reduced women to mere prizes to be won, objects to be shown off, and playthings to be abused and toyed with. Now is the time to stop this primitive madness.”

Source: The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

“What a hundred caring, courageous and conscientious women can achieve in ten years, would take a thousand men a hundred years.”

Source: The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

“If attempting to make the world a civilized one, makes you a bad woman in the eyes of the dumb patriarchal society, then, by all means, be it.”

Source: The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

“Arise my Sister! Awake my Sister! Start walking in the path of building your own identity!”

Source: The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality