"Her iron will won international respect. Her unabashed femininity gained women’s. Margaret Thatcher was a lady’s lady."

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"With the conception that the Revolution was only a means of securing political power, it was inevitable that all revolutionary values should be subordinated to the needs of the Socialist State; indeed…"

— Emma Goldman

Social Activism1869–1940

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"The conference was not a lonely effort. None other than Israel’s President Moshe Katsav welcomed the attendees. Reflecting the predominant Jewish supremacist views among Israeli and American Jews, the…"

— Joseph Massad

Education1963

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"Respect for woman, the much lauded chivalry of the Middle Ages, meant what I fear it still means to some men in our own day—respect for the elect few among whom they expect to consort."

— Anna J. Cooper

Literature1858–1964

#time

"It is possible to be a woman who is intelligent, thoughtful, articulate, ambitious while being a woman who is maternal, nurturing, sexual and for other women."

— Gwyneth Paltrow

Entertainment1972

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