"It is unthinkable that a national government which represents women should ignore the issue of the right of all women to political freedom."

-- Lucy Burns

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“I've always burned my bridges before me.”

Source : Dagmar Godowsky (1958). “First Person Plural: The Lives of Dagmar Godowsky”, Viking Adult
“It was like a new world opened to me, the world of science, which I was at last permitted to know in all liberty.”

Source : Marie Curie, Vernon Lyman Kellogg (1963). “Pierre Curie: With Autobiographical Notes by Marie Curie”, p.85, Courier Corporation
“Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.”
“People say I'm America's worst nightmare. I say I'm the American dream.”
“We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.”
“The baby's life is never willfully destroyed because the mother's life is in danger.”
“I wanted to do what Marilyn Monroe did (during the Korean War), when she went and just set up a stage and did a concert for the troops all by herself. It's so amazing seeing that one woman just going somewhere, this beautiful sex kitten, who's basically a pinup, which is what I've always aspired to be.”
“Let no-one say the past is dead, the past is all about us and within.”

Source : Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Kath Walker (1992). “The dawn is at hand: selected poems”, Marion Boyars Publishers

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