Perhaps that is what love is: the momentary or prolonged refusal to think of another person in terms of power.

—Phyllis Rose

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Phyllis Rose (born October 26, 1942) is an American literary critic, essayist, biographer, and educator.

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If I had ever learned to type, I never would have made brigadier general.

—Elizabeth Hoisington, one of the first two female U.S. Army officers to attain the rank

If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?

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My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks.… I will not resign myself to the usual lot of women who bow their heads and become concubines.

—Trieu Thi Trinh

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Power concedes nothing without demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and this will continue till they have resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they suppress.

—Frederick Douglass

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It's always been and always will be the same in the world: the horse does the work, and the coachman is tipped.

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