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The Nobel Peace Prize is not awarded for what one has done, but hopefully what one will do.
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The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own. There is no other way.
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The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there.
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The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban housewife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night, she was afraid to ask even of her
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The problem that has no name (which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities) is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease.
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The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people.
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The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.
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The song 'Some Other Time...' is full of emotion. In wartime, it had a tremendously poignant feeling.
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The suburban housewife - she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said, of women all over the world. The American housewife - freed by science and labor-saving appliances from the drudgery, the dangers of childbirth, and the illnesses of her grandmother had found true feminine fulfillment.
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The thing that started the peace movement in Ireland was anger - my anger. It wasn't anger; it was fury.
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The voice of women has a special role and a special soul force in the struggle for a nonviolent world.
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The voice of women, the voice of those most closely involved in bringing forth new life, has not always been listened to when it pleaded and implored against the waste of life in war after war.
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The woman's vision is deep reaching, the man's far reaching. With the man the world is his heart, with the woman the heart is her world.
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The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life.
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The work that must be done for each woman to reconnect with her psyche and to give herself a chance to live her own life is essentially the same. The realization of the equality of all races, the equality of all beings is essential.
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There are three things we have no control over: our birth; our emotions, if we're sincere; and our death.
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There are two reasons why I'm in show business, and I'm standing on both of them.
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There have always been female artists and singers putting bands together all the time. But we were not always getting credit for that because we didn't know any better.
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There needs to be bolder thinking,... on how to measure the quality of life of men and women in the work force. Currently, success is measured by material advancements. We need to readjust the definition of success to account for time outside of work and satisfaction of life, not just the dollars-and-cents bottom line.
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There's a lot of maintenance that goes into being a professional singer.
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