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The state of the world today demands that women become less modest and dream/plan/act/risk on a larger scale.

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.

The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights

The stress of making small talk with in-laws is called being part of a family.

The struggle for the aim of the liberation of women is the child of fire born on the lap of our liberation movement.

The sun was a warrior whom I gladly contested and whom I overthrew. Dazzling and magnificent was the sun's army on my back and joyous were the blades of sweat that came from my pores and vanquished him.

...the synagogin', the tabernaclin', the psalmin', that goes on in this hoose, that's enough to break the spirits o' ony young creature.

The surest way to get what you need is to communicate.

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

The task of organizing human happiness needs the active cooperation of man and woman: it cannot be relegated to one half of the world.

The Teen Challenge ministry was born out of those humble early days of ministry. It now includes over 500 drug and alcohol rehab centers around the world, even in Muslim countries. These include homes for girls and women addicts and alcoholics, all which are reaching many.

The term girl not only serves to avoid certain anxiety-arousing connotations inherent in the word woman regarding aggression, sexuality, and reproduction, it also serves to impart a tone of frivolousness and lack of seriousness to ambitious, intellectual, and competitive striving that women may pursue.

The things that hold women back, hold them back from sitting at the boardroom table and they hold women back from speaking at the PTA meeting.

The thing women must do to rise to power is to redefine their femininity. Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact power has no sex.

The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen As is the razor's edge invisible.

The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams.

The trouble about most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation, or hope to be one in the next.

The trouble with women? Elbows.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.

The truly essential bargain between host and guest requires the guest only to respond promptly, show up on time, socialize with other guests, thank the host, write additional thanks and reciprocate. You needn't bring anything.

The underlying principles of manners- respect, fairness, and congeniality.

The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors.

The urgent need today is to develop and support leaders on every level of government who are independent of the bossism of every political machine - the big-city machine, the liberal Democrat machine, and the Republican kingmaker machine.

The Virgin (and I'm not speaking here of a sexual virgin) is the one whose search springs from her complete independence, and everything she learns is the fruit of her ability to face challenges alone.

The usual masculine dissillusionment is discovering that a woman has a brain

The uses of government should be to foster, protect and promote the possession of equality.

The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.

The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

The women of my mother's generation had, in the main, only one decision to make about their lives: who they would marry. From that, so much else followed: where they would live, in what sort of conditions, whether they would be happy or sad or, so often, a bit of both. There were roles and there were rules.

... the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed and coaxed, is invariably a bitterly disappointed woman. A game of chess will cure such a conceit forever. The woman that knows the most, thinks the most, feels the most, is the most. Intellectual affection is the only lasting love. Love that has a game of chess in it can checkmate any man and solve the problem of life.

The Women of the Storm made a big difference for me, because it really put some real-life faces with the situation, and not just politicians.

The women of today are in a fair way to dethrone the myth of femininity; they are beginning to affirm their independence in concrete ways; but they do not easily succeed in living completely the life of a human being.

The women who pass away before they receive Social Security, for them this is nothing but a tax from which they or their family will never receive a benefit.

The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.

The woman born to physical subjection and degradation can never seek or use knowledge as her birthright. Never till she holds her sex in honor, as man holds his, can she be his equal, even in her own realm.

The woman is the man's glory, and she naturally delights in the praises which are assurances that she is fulfilling her function; and she gives herself to him who succeeds in convincing her that she, of all others, is best able to discharge it for him. A woman without this kind of "vanity" is a monster.

The woman who has the best perfume is she who has none.

The world has never had a greater need for enlightened women and men.

The women of today are the thoughts of their mothers and grandmothers, embodied and made alive. They are active, capable, determined and bound to win. They have one-thousand generations back of them... Millions of women dead and gone are speaking through us today

The world is full of women, and the women full of wile; so that a man, if he goeth not warily withal, shall surely fall a prey thereunto.

The women take so little stock In what I do or say They'd sooner leave their cosseting To hear a jackass bray.

The women that I picked spoke sweet and low And yet gave tongue. "Hound voices" were they all.

The woman who cannot tell a lie in defense of her husband, is unworthy of the name of wife.

The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

The worst thing in the world is a bitter woman. That's one thing about your mother, she's never been bitter.

The worst thing is the world is a defensive my-kid-can't-do-anything-wrong parent.

They have done this through sexual repression, economic repression, political repression, social repression, ideological repression and spiritual repression.

They have rejected that power and sought to convince women of the exact opposite, that they are powerless.

Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.