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Anonymous
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“I may be good for nothing, but I'm never bad for nothing!”
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“[On writer George Moore:] Some men kiss and tell, but Mr. Moore tells but does not kiss.”
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“A fundamental feminist principle is that the means are the ends; that how we do something is what we get.”
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“Sweeping and scrubbing can / wait 'til tomorrow, / Babies grow up, we've / learned to our sorrow. / So quiet down cobwebs, / dust go to sleep, / I'm rocking my baby, / And babies don't keep!”
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“... I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books.”
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“Any one who has desperately needed to come home knows what a tremendous feeling it is to be lying in his own bed!”
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“What I'm working for is the day when a mediocre woman can get as far as a mediocre man.”
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“[Operator to a would-be caller during a telephone strike in France:] Love is not an emergency.”
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“Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.”
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“Natural law is only whatever happens in your lifetime within fifty miles of you.”
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“Disarm rapists.”
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“I'm so used to feeling guilty that I blame myself for the weather some days.”
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“I am not my body. I am not my work or my role. I am not my gender. I am not my nationality. I am not a human being ... I am a spiritual being having a human experience.”
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“Eve was framed.”
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“When I retired, I found I had not enough money and too much husband.”
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“[On the chances of finding a good man in Alaska:] Well, the odds are good, but the goods are odd.”
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“A pedestal is as much a prison as any other small space.”
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“A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between her work and her play, her labor and her leisure, her mind and her body, her education and her recreation. She hardly knows which is which. She simply pursues her vision of excellence through whatever she is doing and leaves others to determine whether she is working or playing. To herself she always seems to be doing both.”
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“Nothing is easier than to make a friend of the vain — nor an enemy.”
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“I alone can do it. But I can't do it alone.”
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“Between 50 and 60, sex is out there. If you want it, you can connect. After 60, you have to supply the sled, the snow and the dog team.”
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“I am writing you because I have nothing to do; and I'm quitting here because I have nothing to tell you.”
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“As an empowerer, I really think that the highs for me have been making people do things they could never do before. Giving them the confidence and the criticism and the help and the ideas, and sharing my chutzpah, the chutzpah I was born with, and making them have it, too. So that's the empowerment.”
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“Make only those mistakes that you really enjoy.”
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“I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.”
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“[Employee's reaction on hearing that the energetic and vociferous Miss Arden had died:] But it's so unlike her!”
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“Don't iron while the strike is hot.”
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“I saw God last night. Really? What's he like? Well, he's a woman and she's black!”
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“Husbands is the most undiscovered nation of people there is.”
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“A religious person should have three bones — a wishbone for high ideals, a backbone for good resolutions, and a funny bone for ups and downs.”
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“If you think equality is the goal ... your standards are too low.”
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“Women are an oppressed class. Our oppression is total, affecting every facet of our lives. We are exploited as sex objects, breeders, domestic servants, and cheap labor. We are considered inferior beings, whose only purpose is to enhance men's lives. Our humanity is denied. Our prescribed behavior is enforced by the threat of physical violence. Because we have lived so intimately with our oppressors, in isolation from each other, we have been kept from seeing our personal suffering as a political condition. This creates the illusion that a woman's relationship with her man is a matter of interplay between two unique personalities, and can be worked out individually. In reality, every such relationship is a class relationship, and the conflicts between individual men and women are political conflicts that can only be solved collectively.”
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“We identify with all women. We define our best interest as that of the poorest, most brutally exploited woman. We repudiate all economic, racial, educational or status privileges that divide us from other women. We are determined to recognize and eliminate any prejudices we may hold against other women. We are committed to achieving internal democracy. We will do whatever is necessary to ensure that every woman in our movement has an equal chance to participate, assume responsibility, and develop her political potential.”
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“The time for individual skirmishes has passed. This time we are going all the way.”
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“[Letter found in 1998, lying on the mummified body of Eung-Tae Lee, a 30-year-old Korean man who died in 1586:] To Won's Father: You always said, 'Dear, let's live together until our hair turns gray and die on the same day.' How could you pass away without me? Who should I and our little boy listen to and how should we live? How could you go ahead of me? How did you bring your heart to me and how did I bring my heart to you? Whenever we lay down together you always told me, 'Dear, do other people cherish and love each other like we do? Are they really like us?' How could you leave all that behind and go ahead of me? I just cannot live without you. I just want to go to you. Please take me to where you are. My feelings toward you I cannot forget in this world and my sorrow knows no limit. ... When I give birth to the child in me, who should it call father? Can anyone fathom how I feel? There is no tragedy like this under the sky. You are just in another place, and not in such a deep grief as I am. ... Come to me secretly and show yourself. There is no limit to what I want to say and I stop here.”
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“Now that you have touched the women, you have struck a rock, you have dislodged a boulder, and you will be crushed.”
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“If my dog were a man, he'd be hot.”
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“How to tell a businessman from a businesswoman: A businessman is aggressive; a businesswoman is pushy. A businessman is good on details; she's picky. He loses his temper at times because he's so involved in his work; she's bitchy. He knows how to follow through; she doesn't know when to quit. He stands firm; she's hard. He's a man of the world; she's been around. He isn't afraid to say what he thinks; she's mouthy. He drinks martinis because of excessive job pressures; she's a lush. He exercises authority diligently; she's power mad. He's climbed the ladder of success; she's slept her way to the top. He's a stern taskmaster; she's hard to work for!”
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“[On how to be a successful host:] When your guests arrive say, 'At last!' And when they leave say, 'So soon!'”
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“God is life itself to us — the air, the bread, and the blood of the soul. No one can live without, at every moment, drawing upon Him, however unconscious they may be that they are.”
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“Ecstasies inspire and awaken the soul; they convince the mind absolutely of the existence of another form of living.”
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“Sir, you have just insulted a woman. This card has been chemically treated. Your penis will fall off in three days.”
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“The truly free woman is one who knows how to decline a dinner invitation without giving an excuse.”
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“Mortal love is but the licking of honey from thorns.”
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“Don't Preach. Don't Patronize.”
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“These aren't hot flashes, they're power surges.”
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“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, martini in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out, replacement parts hanging by a mere thread, and screaming: 'Woo Hoo!! What a ride!!!'”
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“When people ask me why I don't get married, I tell them I can't mate in captivity.”
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“One can no more have trout than fame or riches without some accompanying disadvantages.”
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“The personal is political.”
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“We want bread and roses too.”
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“Am I not a woman and a sister?”
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“I'm proud to be a hillbilly. ... Some of the proudest people in this country are poor people.”
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“Quite the worst epithet the mind of the radical can conjure up, in castigation for the less radical, quite the smelliest rose of yesterday he can pin on you, is 'bourgeois.' To be neither very conservative nor very radical, to be plain every-day, middle-class average, is to be just too awful for language, take it from the radical who is one degree more so than the last one.”
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“Now that you have touched the women, you have struck a rock, you have dislodged a boulder, and you will be crushed.”
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“Sure, now ivery child knows what's guvermint. It's half a dozen gintlemen an' the loike maybe, that meets an' thinks what's best fer thimsilves, an' thin says that's best fer us — an' that's guvermint.”
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“A little coitus wouldn't hoitus.”
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“Educate a woman and you educate a family.”
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“Of all the labor-saving devices ever invented for women, none has ever been so popular as the devoted male.”
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“[Life] was mighty easy for the men and horses, but death on cattle and women.”
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“I don't read. Reading makes you think, and thinking gives you wrinkles.”
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“Dear Mother: I'm all right. Stop worrying about me.”
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“Poetry is eating all my problems.”
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“Touch is part of my way of being in the world, and when I'm not able to touch and be touched, I feel very deprived.”
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“[Upon being asked when sexual jealousy ends:] Why ask me, how should I know, I'm only eighty-five.”
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“Women hold up half the sky.”
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“What man calls conversion is often only the discovery of the Great Friend. What man calls religion is the knowledge of the Great Friend. What man calls holiness is the imitation of the Great Friend.”
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“Abundance is God's Supply. Turn out all limited thoughts. Receive showers and in your turn — shower.”
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“Only within burns the fire I kindle. / My heart the altar. / My heart the altar.”
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“[United States:] ... a country that has arrived at decadence without passing through maturity.”
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“I have a boa constrictor. ... Once a month I go to a dissection lab on campus to get frozen mice to feed my boa constrictor. But this month, there was a new professor in charge, and he said to me, 'I can't give you frozen mice. If I give you frozen mice, everyone will want frozen mice.”
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“Honey, if men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament!”
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“[On her wedding expenses:] How many homeless people would this feed? Of how many countries does this exceed the gross domestic product?”
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