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Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continua

Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other. – Mary Douglas

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It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat. – Mary Douglas

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Science
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It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on. – Mary Douglas

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Religion
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If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny. – Mary Douglas

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The work that must be done for each woman to reconnect with her psyche and to give herself a chance to live her own life is essentially the same. The realization of the equality of all races, the equality of all beings is essential. – Betty Buckley

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The only way to ensure equality for women is to clearly declare it in our Constitution. – Carolyn Maloney

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Candor is a compliment it implies equality. Its how true friends talk. – Peggy Noonan

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Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality. – Helen Clark

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