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1. "...Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could."

2. "It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason, and that all the power they obtain must be obtained by their charms and weakness."

3. "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

4. "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

5. "By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class."

6. "This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons hitherto brought forward in explanation of this fact has seem adequate."

7. "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."

8. "That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black, and a woman proves, I think, that our society is not yet either just or free."

9. "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."

10. "Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry."

1. "...Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could."
Abigail Adams

2. "It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason, and that all the power they obtain must be obtained by their charms and weakness."
Mary Wollstonecraft

3. "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
Eleanor Roosevelt

4. "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
Margaret Mead

5. "By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

6. "This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons hitherto brought forward in explanation of this fact has seem adequate."
Simone de Beauvoir

7. "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."
Virginia Woolf

8. "That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black, and a woman proves, I think, that our society is not yet either just or free."
Shirley Chisholm

9. "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."
Betty Friedan

10. "Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry."
Gloria Steinem

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