Right now, we're living in an ugly chapter of our lives, but books always get better! ― Chris Colfer

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And really, how insulting is it that to suggest that the best thing women can do is raise other people to do incredible things? I’m betting some of those women would like to do great things of their own. -- Jessica Valenti

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Since the time of the ancient Greeks a democracy has depended on its philosophers and creative artists. It can only flourish by continuous probing, prodding, and questioning of the social conditions under which man exists and tries to better himself. One of the first moves of a dictatorship is to stifle the artists and thinkers who have the ability to stir up dissent from any prescribed dogma which might enslave them. Because the artist can arouse the curiosity and conscience of his community, he becomes a threat to those who have taken power.

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All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others. ― Douglas Adams

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It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It's what we do consistently. ― Anthony Robbins

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I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

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It is often asserted that as woman has always been man's slave--subject--inferior--dependent, under all forms of government and religion, slavery must be her normal condition. This might have some weight had not the vast majority of men also been enslaved for centuries to kings and popes, and orders of nobility, who, in the progress of civilization, have reached complete equality.

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All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players - William Shakespeare

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I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman.

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There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver. ― Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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