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"We've got a generation now who were born with semiequality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad. We're working. We have our attache' cases and our three piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away. Things are going to have to get worse before they join in fighting the battle."	Erma Louise Bombeck
"The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments."	William Edgar Borah
"I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age."	George Burns
"Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion."	Dwight David Eisenhower
"The tendancy of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion-mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined."	George Eliot
"There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me."	John Erskine
"The great question … which I have not been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is What does a woman want?"	Sigmund Freud
"When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself."	Nancy Friday
"If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based."	Betty Naomi Friedan
"Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next."	John Kenneth Galbraith
"I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes; believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it..."	Learned Hand
"The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt."	Jesse Louis Jackson
"I knew from the start if I left a woman I really loved -- the Great Society -- in order to fight that bitch of a war [in Vietnam] … then I would lose everything at home. My hopes … my dreams."	Lyndon Baines Johnson
"There is a woman at the begining of all great things."	Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine
"Just a hurried line...to tell a story which puts the contrast between our feast of the Nativity and all this ghastly Xmas racket at it's lowest. My brother heard a woman on a 'bus say, as the 'bus passed a church with a Crib outside it, Oh Lor'! They bring religion into everything. Look- they're dragging it even into Christmas now!"	Clive Staples Lewis
"Earth has nothing more tender than a woman's heart when it is the abode of piety."	Martin Luther
"'State intelligence,' like 'military intelligence' and 'woman friend,' is a contradiction in terms."	Niall MacDermot
"The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you."	W(illiam) Somerset Maugham
"A man always blames the woman who fooled him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark."	Henry Louis Mencken
"Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too."	Henry Louis Mencken
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