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You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.
I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.
A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
A Room of One's Own
I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
The Second Sex
A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.
Orlando
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
The Second Sex