Being asked to decide between your passion for work and your passion for children was like being asked by your doctor whether you preferred him to remove your brain or your heart.

—Mary Kay Blakely

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About Mary Kay Blakely

Mary Kay Blakely (February 18, 1948 – June 3, 2023) was an American writer, feminist, and professor notable for her contributions to Ms. Magazine, The New York Times, and Vogue, among many publications, and for her work as a full-time professor at the Missouri School of Journalism.

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One life stamps and influences another, which in turn stamps and influences another, on and on, until the soul of human experience breathes on in generations we'll never even meet.

—Mary Kay Blakely

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High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

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Leave it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination.

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Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we'll take up, and the more we'll have to be reckoned with. I think every woman should be fat like me.

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Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

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A dame that knows the ropes isn’t likely to get tied up.

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