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In fact, as a woman, I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.”
Virginia Woolf

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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.”
Simone de Beauvoir

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No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.”
Edvard Munch

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When a woman learned to read, the woman question arose in the world.”
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”
Simone de Beauvoir - The Second Sex

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Within the given world, it is up to man to make the reign of freedom prevail; to carry off this supreme victory, men and women must, among other things and above and beyond their natural differentiations, affirm their brotherhood unequivocally.”
Simone de Beauvoir

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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
Virginia Woolf

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For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.”
Virginia Woolf

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The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.”
Virginia Woolf

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Women forge themselves the chains with which men do not wish to burden them.”
Simone de Beauvoir

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