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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. "Declaration of Sentiments." Women's Rights Convention. 19 July 1848, Wesleyan Chapel, Seneca Falls, NY, USA.

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The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night-she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-"Is this all?"

Betty Friedan

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Friedan, Betty. The Feminine Mystique. W. W. Norton & Company, 1963, ch. 1.

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Now, we are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

Gloria Steinem

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Steinem, Gloria. "Words and Change." Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1983. Originally published in Ms. Magazine, Jul./Aug. 1982.

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In the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable 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

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Adams, Abigail. Letter to John Adams. 31 Mar. 1776.

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Adams, Abigail. My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams, edited by Margaret A. Hogan and C. James Taylor. Belknap Press, 2010.

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I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

Rebecca West

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West, Rebecca. "Mr. Chesterton in Hysterics." The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17. Indiana University Press, 1989. Originally published in The Clarion, 14 Nov. 1913.

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Feminism is the most revolutionary idea there has ever been. Equality for women demands a change in the human psyche more profound than anything Marx dreamed of. It means valuing parenthood as much as we value banking.