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Who needs consciousness-raising and equal pay, when you’re an Amazon with an invisible plane?

— Jill Lepore

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History is the art of making an argument about the past by telling a story accountable to evidence.

Story of America: essays on origins (2014)

Before Barbie, dolls were babies, to be fed and burped and bathed and wheeled around in prams and put down for naps.

I never set out to study history. I only ever set out to write.

The work of the historian is not the work of the critic or of the moralist,”. “It is the work of the sleuth and the storyteller, the philosopher and the scientist, the keeper of tales, the sayer of sooth, the teller of truth.

As Kozinski would write in his opinion in Mattel v. MGA, it’s possible to make dolls that don’t look like porn stars but “there’s not a big market for fashion dolls that look like Patty and Selma Bouvier”—a reference to Lisa Simpson’s big-nosed, wide-waisted, thick-ankled aunts.

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Robert Anton Wilson Everything Is Under Control (1998)

Feminism, coveting social power, is blind to women’s cosmic sexual power.

Camille Paglia Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman.

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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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