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"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
"When a man or woman loves to brood over a sorrow and takes care to keep it green in their memory, you may be sure it is no longer a pain to them."	Jerome Klapka Jerome
"Men and women are limited not by the place of their birth, not by the color of their skin, but by the size of their hope."	John Johnson
"I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women." (On appointing 10 women to top government positions)"	Lyndon Baines Johnson
"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
"To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts."	Lyndon Baines Johnson
"Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man."	Joseph Joubert
"[To a talkative woman:] Madam, don't you have any unexpressed thoughts?"	Barry Neil Kaufman
"I want to emphasize in the great concentration which we now place upon scientists and engineers how much we still need the men and women educated in the liberal tradition, willing to take the long look, undisturbed by prejudices and slogans of the moment, who attempt to make an honest judgment on difficult events."	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults."	Charles Kingsley
"The female of the species is more deadly than the male."	(Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
"There is a woman at the begining of all great things."	Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine
"The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces; what they want is control. Control over behavior: power over women. Women in the anti-choice movement want to share in male power over women, and do so by denying their own womanhood, their own rights and responsibilities."	Ursula K. LeGuin
"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
"Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces."	Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh
"Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes.' They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'"	Clare Boothe Luce
"Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence, they must be passive creatures. It's just not true. In one important way, at least, men are the passive sex. Given a choice, they will always opt for the status quo. They hate change of any kind, and they fight against it constantly. On the other hand, what women want is stability, which when you stop to think about it is a very different animal."	Eric Lustbader
"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
"If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring."	Marya Mannes
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Joseph Addison	Joseph Conrad	Joseph Joubert
Joseph Mazzini	Jose Ortega y Gasset	Jules Feiffer
Katharine Houghton Hepburn	Lady Nancy Astor	Learned Hand
Leonard Bernstein	Louisa May Alcott	Louis K. Anspacher
Lyndon Baines Johnson	L. Frank Baum	Mae West
Marcel Archard	Margaret Mead	Margaret Atwood
Marguerite de Valois	Martin Luther	Marya Mannes
Mary Catherine Bateson	Mary Ingraham Bunting	Maureen Murphy
Miguel de Cervantes	Mortimer Collins	Nancy Drew
Nancy Friday	Niall MacDermot	Ogden Nash
Oliver Wendell Holmes	Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.	Oscar Wilde
Patricia Roberts Harris	Pauline Frederick	Philip Howard
Quentin Crisp	Richard Milhouse Nixon	Robert Lee Frost
Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Saul Bellow	Scott Bairstow
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette	Sigmund Freud	Steve Martin
Susan B. Anthony	Terry Goodkind	Thomas Moore
Ursula K. LeGuin	W.C. Fields	Will Rogers
Willa Sibert Cather	William Congreve	William Shakespeare
William Edgar Borah	Woody Allen	W(illiam) Somerset Maugham
Zsa Zsa Gabor	(David) Whittaker Chambers	(Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
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