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I myself have never been able to find out what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

— Rebecca West

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Art is at least in part a way of collecting information about the universe.

Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.

Socialism is not a bomb thrown at the natural institution of society, but a well-considered medicine for a diseased community.

The word “idiot” comes from a Greek root meaning private person.

Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1941)

All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if the nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.

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"Elohim," the name for the creative power in Genesis, is a female plural, a fact that generations of learned rabbis and Christian theologians have all explained as merely grammatical convention.

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.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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