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Every gain women have made in the past two hundred years has been in the face of experts insisting they couldn't do it and didn't really want to.

— Katha Pollitt Virginity Or Death!: And Other Social and Political Issues of Our Time (2006)

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For me, religion is serious business—a farrago of authoritarian nonsense, misogyny and humble pie, the eternal enemy of human happiness and freedom.

The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd—most people don't even know what they want for dinner.

Old, in America, is not a good thing to be.

When your claim to be victims of secularism rests on Wal-Mart greeters wishing shoppers Happy Holidays, you are clearly a bunch of great big babies.

We live, I am trying to say, in an epidemic of male violence against women.

Reasonable Creatures: Essays on Women and Feminism (2004)

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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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