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“In college, educated women (I found out) were frigid; active women (I knew) were neurotic; women (we all knew) were timid, incapable, dependent, nurturing, passive, intuitive, emotional, unintelligent, obedient, and beautiful. You can always get dressed up and go to…

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The techniques are all means of dealing with one simple idea: She wrote it. (That is, the "wrong" person--in this case, female--has created the…

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Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is.

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“I had planned to consult with a Black colleague, but when I approached her in the hall she had a crowd of students about,…

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There are more whooping cranes in the United States of America than there are women in Congress.

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“Courage is willful hope.”

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The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble with women, too.

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