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In those days, it was common for a woman to be addressed as ‘Miss’ even though she had earned a Ph.D. degree.

— Marie Maynard Daly

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Courage is like — it’s a habitus, a habit, a virtue: you get it by courageous acts. It’s like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging.

Rockefeller, where she worked for seven years, was an “awesome and inspiring” place to be.

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The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.

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There is a Lady sweet and kind,
Was never face so pleased my mind;
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And yet I love her till I die.

Thomas Ford

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.

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