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When a subject is highly

When a subject is highly controversial... one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold. One can only give one's audience the chance of drawing their own conclusions as they observe the limitations, the prejudices, the idiosyncrasies of the speaker.
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Different though the sexes are,

Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness, while underneath the sex is very opposite of what it is above.
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Publicity in women is detestable.

Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still possesses them. They are not even now as concerned about the health of their fame as men are, and, speaking generally, will pass a tombstone or a signpost without feeling an irresistible desire to cut their names on it.
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When the shriveled skin of

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.
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If you insist upon fighting

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or our country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits which I have not shared and probably will not share.
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It would be a thousand

It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two sexes are quite inadequate, considering the vastness and variety of the world, how should we manage with one only? Ought not education to bring out and fortify the differences rather than the similarities? For we have too much likeness as it is, and if an explorer should come back and bring word of other sexes looking through the branches of other trees at other skies, nothing would be of greater service to humanity; and we should have the immense pleasure into the bargain of watching Professor X rush for his measuring-rods to prove himself superior.
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Mental fight means thinking against

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.
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As a woman I have

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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Literature is strewn with the

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
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I have lost friends, some

I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
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