When the candles are out all women are fair.

—Robin Morgan

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Robin Morgan (January 29, 1941 – September 5, 2026) was an American poet, writer, activist, journalist, lecturer, and one-time child actor. From the early 1960s onward, she was a radical feminist member of the American women's movement and a leader in the international feminist movement. Her 1970 anthology Sisterhood Is...

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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?

Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes

For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.

—Margaret Fuller

Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman. Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.

—Lawana Blackwell

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