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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.

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As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.

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Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

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If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance very various heroic and mean ...more

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Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware t...more

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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

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This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in...more

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Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

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And since a novel has this correspondence to real life, its values are to some extent those of real life. But it is obvious that the values of women d...more

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It is remarkable, remembering the bitterness of those days, what a change of temper a fixed income will bring about. No force in the world can take fr...more

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Life for both sexes--and I looked at them, shouldering their way along the pavement--is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. It calls for giganti...more

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Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. (...) Women have had less intellectual freedom than the sons of Athenian slaves. Women, then, have ...more

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When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even of a very remarkable man who ...more

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Literature is impoverished beyond our counting by the doors that have been shut upon women