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Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men — bring them softness, teach them how to cry. – Joan Baez, “Sexism Seen but not Heard,” Los Angeles Times, 1974

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Men are irrelevant. Women are happy or unhappy, fulfilled or unfulfilled, and it has nothing to do with men. – Fay Weldon

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Several men I can think of are as capable, as smart, as funny, as compassionate, and as confused — as remarkable you might say — as most women. – Jane Howard

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Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive. – Marya Mannes

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