"Women's roles are diminished for obvious reasons. It's the men whose names are on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and who were generals and soldiers."

-- Cokie Roberts

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“Imagine for a moment playing by children's rules. If you were at a party and saw someone you liked, you could just go and hold their hand. If they then try to kiss you and you don't like it, you can push them over. If your aunty gives you a Christmas present that you're not too keen on, you can throw it back in her face and burst into tears. You can gallop freely. You can skip. Children have got it right. The tragedy is, none of this is permissible as an adult. Although one thing surely is â€“ and I'll bet you know what I'm going to say â€“ that's right, the galloping. Such fun!”

Source : Miranda Hart (2012). “Is It Just Me?”, p.214, Hachette UK
“I've always known where I wanted to go in life.”
“Having listened to people for a long time, I believe many of us should be thankful not to be shot.”
“the point of feminism ... is to win women a wider range of experience. Feminism remains a pretty simple concept, despite repeated - and enormously effective - efforts to dress it up in greasepaint and turn its proponents into gargoyles.”

Source : Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: the undeclared war against American women”, Crown Pub
“I would rather be called funny than pretty.”

Source : "Live From" with Kyra Phillips, www.cnn.com. April 9, 2004.
“Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.”
“It's impossible to imagine our planet without coral.”
“Whenever reality reinforces a child's fantasied dangers, the child will have more difficulty in overcoming them...So, while parents may not regard a spanking as a physical attack or an assault on a child's body, the child may regard it as such, and experience it as a confirmation of his fears that grown-ups under certain circumstances can really hurt you.”

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