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"And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of treesand changing leaves."

"I do not believe in God, because I believe in man. Whatever his mistakes, man has for thousands of years past been working to undo the botched job your God has made."

"All men were alien one to another, at times, not only aliens."

"I often think that woman is more free in Islam than in Christianity. Woman is more protected by Islam than by the faith which preaches monogamy. In AI Quran the law about woman is juster and more liberal."

"Theism is nothing more than a bunch of fables made up by superstitious primitives. Having a doctorate in theology is consequently not significantly different than having a PhD in Mother Goose."

"I am America’s hope and the president’s nightmare."

"I want you to understand that I never could have done the work I have if I had not had this woman at my right hand."

"The silent annexation is ongoing. The Democratic Progressive Party’s loss of power might be tolerable, but the loss of sovereignty in our time would be an irreversible mistake that would jeopardize future generations."

"There have always been poor and working classes; and the working class have mostly been poor. But there have not always been workers and poor people living under conditions as they are today."

"Life and Mystery of Amelia Earhart slideshow by LIFE magazine"

"Civilization is a method of living and an attitude of equal respect for all people."

"There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved."

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🇺🇸Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Literature

1860–1935

"You think you have mastered it , but just as you get well under way in following, it turns a back-somersault and there you are. It slaps you in the face, knocks you down, and tramples upon you."

"A god that rewards credulity, a god that sanctions slavery, is unworthy of any kind of reverence or respect or devotion."

"If you apologize for something that isn't your fault in the first place, you, in effect, confirm their belief that it is your fault."

"No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees,sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air,dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding,our animal passion rooted in the city."

"They can kill you in one second, you understand that you are a very very small person. But in the same time one thinks: you are a small person that can make such a big point that even Russia will send their after you!"

"Oh! I want to put my arms around you, I ache to hold you close. Your ring is a great comfort. I look at it and think she does love me or I wouldn't be wearing it!"

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🇺🇸Nannie Helen Burroughs

"Pathology is the place where history talks with its loudest most grating voice."

"By definition, a catalogue raissonne employs methodical scholarship to gather and digest in systematic form all that can be known of an artist's work and life. In short the evidence of his intellectual and cultural life."

"Pornography is the theory, and rape the practice. And what a practice. The violation of an individual woman is the metaphor for man's forcing himself on whole nations , on nonhuman creatures , and on the planet itself ."

"NYTimes Women In The World Articles by Zainab Salbi"

"Fortunately, there is more to life than death. There is for one thing, fiction. A thousand thousand characters to be sent marching out into the world to divert time from its forward gallop to the terrible horizon."

"Rarely was heard on her lips the phrase, “I cannot”; more frequently were heard the words, “I must."

"If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power."

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🇺🇸Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Literature

1950–2009

"Seemingly, this society wants its children to know nothing; wants its queer children to conform or die; and wants not to know that it is getting what it wants."

"Ernestine Rose: A Defence of Atheism: A lecture delivered in Mercantile Hall, Boston on 10 April, 1861, Published in 1881."

"Can women make use of men's vulnerability not to marry but instead to destroy male power?"

"Birmingham is very special for me because it is here that I found myself alive, seven days after I was shot... It is now my second home, after my beloved Pakistan."

"We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers."

"If their own blood relatives discarded, betrayed, forgot and harmed them, then they are our children, our sisters our mothers that we will mourn, we will remember, we will honour their memory and we will not forget!"

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🇺🇸Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Literature

feminism

1815–1902

"In entering upon the great work before us, we anticipate no small amount of misconception, misrepresentation, and ridicule; but we shall use every instrumentality within our power to effect our object."

"Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Northern Slave, Emancipated from Bodily Servitude by the State of New York, in 1828"

"Women driving is just the first step - we have a long way to go."

"I do not write about nice people. I am not nice people. Neither is anyone I have ever cared deeply about."

"Smile to life this morning and be assured, ma'am, that this life will make you smile. The present belongs to the optimists."

"You didn’t have to be a good speaker, because the minute you began, you were arrested."

"...a lot of people in this country have had the courage to raise their daughters more like their sons. ... But there are many fewer people who have had the courage to raise their sons more like their daughters."

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