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WOMEN: A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. (Gloria Steinem, U.S. feminist, journalist, and social and political activist, Born 1934)
WOMEN: The status of women in a country is a good indicator of the health of its economy. (Unknown source)
WOMEN: A woman must not depend upon the protection of a man, but must be taught to protect herself. (Susan B. Anthony, U.S. social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement, 1820-1906)
WOMEN: The house does not rest on the ground, but upon a woman. (Mexican proverb)
WOMEN: A woman is like a tea bag: you never know her strength until you drop her in hot water. (Nancy Reagan, U.S. film actress and the wife of Ronald Reagan, the 40th president of the United States, 1921-2016)
WOMEN: Women are made to be loved, not understood. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)
WOMEN: An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls - even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls - without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell. (Pearl Buck, U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973)
WOMEN: We women ought to put first things first. Why should we mind if men have their faces on the money, as long as we get our hands on it? (Ivy Baker Priest, U.S. politician who served as U.S. Treasurer and California State Treasurer, 1905-1975)
WOMEN: When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition. (Letty Cottin Pogrebin, U.S. author, journalist, lecturer, social activist, and a founding editor of Ms. Magazine, Born 1939)