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• In 1969, nationwide, female professors who had never been married and never published earned 145% of their counterpart male colleagues.

  Warren Farrell

  Males, Married, Professors

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• Sexism is discounting the female experience of powerlessness; the new sexism is discounting the male experience of powerlessness.

  Warren Farrell

  Males, Sexism, Powerlessness

  "Why Men Are the Way They Are". Book by Warren Farrell, 1986.

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• On an unconscious level, the demonization of sexuality usually implies the demonization of males and the victimization of females.

  Warren Farrell

  Males, Levels, Sexuality

  "Father and Child Reunion". Book by Warren Farrell, 2001.

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• The female form is much more erotic than the male, who doesn't think that?

  Christina Aguilera

  Thinking, Erotic, Males

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• Darwin theorized that mankind (both male and female) evolved alongside each other over millions of years, both reproducing after their own kind before the ability to physically have sex evolved. They did this through "asexuality" ("without sexual desire or activity or lacking any apparent sex or sex organs"). Each of them split in half.

  Ray Comfort

  Sex, Years, Desire

  Ray Comfort (2009). “Nothing Created Everything: The Scientific Impossibility of Atheistic Evolution”, p.163, WND Books

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• I really knew how to speak - from my female voice, that "different voice" that Carol Gilligan so presciently described many years ago in her groundbreaking book. Because if we try to speak in a voice that isn't ours, we lose our power.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Book, Years, Voice

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I'm sure I can't relate to what females go through in Hollywood, but I do know what it feels like to eat emotionally. To be sad and make yourself happy with food, and then be almost immediately sad again, and then ashamed. Then, you try to hide those feelings with more food.

  Chris Pratt

  Feelings, Trying, Hollywood

  Source: collider.com

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• As Elders we have great respect for all religions and traditions as important forces that bind people together. Faith and tradition provide much of the foundation of our laws and social codes. But where religion and tradition are used to justify discrimination and especially when they are used to justify cruel and harmful practices such as female genital mutilation, infanticide and child marriage, then we believe that is unacceptable.

  Mary Robinson

  Children, Believe, Law

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Believe it or not, I don't collaborate with women, though my agent and editor are both females. For the most part, they do little editing on my characters.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Believe, Character, Editing

  "Nicholas Sparks, Author of 'Nights in Rodanthe' and 'The Notebook'". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. September 17, 2008.

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• I think one of the things that is easy to have happened in a superhero story is that the female character, whether she be a heroine or not, can often be the wart on the man.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Character, Men, Thinking

  "ANT-MAN Set Visit: Evangeline Lilly Talks Ambiguity, Script Changes, and More". Interview with Matt Goldberg, collider.com. June 22, 2015.

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• Being young and female in America, you watch a lot of TV and you grow up on false images of what love truly is.

  Lauryn Hill

  Growing Up, America, Watches

  "New Again: Lauryn Hill". Interview With Genevieve Glass, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 2, 2013.

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• Women are the face of hunger. Hunger has a female face. It affects women disproportionately, and therefore it affects children as well, and it gets passed on inter-generationally, too.

  Josette Sheeran

  Children, Faces, Hunger

  "Interview with Josette Sheeran, Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme". UN News Centre interview, www.un.org. September 20, 2010.

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• All the material is fictional and develops its own eight and a half private, coelesced journeys, where, perhaps not unexpectedly, the females can run faster than the men and trade their freedoms by exhausting the male sexual fantasies and replacing them by some of their own.

  Peter Greenaway

  Running, Journey, Men

  Peter Greenaway (1999). “Eight and a half women”, Dis Voir Editions

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• As we search as a nation for constructive ways to challenge racism and white supremacy, it is absolutely essential that progressive female voices gain a hearing.

  Bell Hooks

  Voice, White, Racism

  "Killing Rage: Ending Racism". Book by Bell Hooks, September 15, 1995.

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• If you cannot see that divinity includes male and female characteristics and at the same time transcends them, you have bad consequences. Rome and Cardinal O'Connor base the exclusion of women priests on the idea that God is the Father and Jesus is His Son, there were only male disciples, etc. They are defending a patriarchal Church with a patriarchal God. We must fight the patriarchal misunderstanding of God.

  Hans Kung

  Jesus, Father, Fighting

  Newsweek interview, July 08, 1991.

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• Many of the narratives can only tend to excite ideas the worst calculated for a female breast: Every thing is called plainly and roundly by its name; and the annals of a Brothel would scarcely furnish a greater choice of indecent expressions. Yet this is the Book, which young Women are recommended to study.

  Matthew Lewis

  Book, Names, Ideas

  Matthew Lewis (2015). “The Monk”, p.223, Booklassic

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• I can't imagine where I'd be without the opportunities provided to me in sports. Sports taught me that gender isn't an issue; in fact, when people talk about me being the first female governor, I'm a little absent from that discussion, because I've never thought of gender as an issue. In sports, you learn self-discipline, healthy competition, to be gracious in victory and defeat, and the importance of being part of a team and understanding what part you play on that team. You all work together to reach a goal, and I think all of those factors come into play in my role as governor.

  Sarah Palin

  Sports, Team, Opportunity

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• "Elohim," the name for the creative power in Genesis, is a female plural, a fact that generations of learned rabbis and Christian theologians have all explained as merely grammatical convention. The King James and most other Bibles translate it as "God," but if you take the grammar literally, it seems to mean "goddesses." Al Shaddai, god of battles, appears later, and YHWH, mispronounced Jehovah, later still.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Christian, Kings, Mean

  "Everything Is Under Control : Conspiracies, Cults, and Cover-Ups" by Robert Anton Wilson, (p. 197), 1998.

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• To the "masculists" of both sexes, "femininity" implies all that men have built into the female image in the past few centuries: weakness, imbecility, dependence, masochism, unreliability, and a certain "babydoll" sexuality that is actually only a projection of male dreams. To the "feminist" of both sexes, femininity is synonymous with the eternal female principle, connoting strength, integrity, wisdom, justice, dependability, and a psychic power foreign and therefore dangerous to the plodding masculists of both sexes.

  Elizabeth Gould Davis

  Dream, Sex, Integrity

  "The First Sex". Book by Elizabeth Gould Davis. Chapter 22: "Woman in the Aquarian Age", 1971.

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• I may be biased, but I tend to find a much lower tendency among female programmers to be dishonest about their skills, and thus do not say they know C++ when they are smart enough to realize that that would be a lie for all but perhaps 5 people on this planet.

  Erik Naggum

  Smart, Lying, Skills

  Re: In praise of Java (Usenet article), groups.google.com. December 1, 2001.

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• The love-making of the bluebird is as beautiful as the bird itself, and normally as gentle, unless interrupted by some jealous rival who would steal his bride; then gentleness gives place to active combat. The male usually arrives a few days ahead of the female, selects what he considers to be a suitable summer home, and carols his sweetest, most seductive notes day after day until she appears in answer to his call.

  Arthur Cleveland Bent

  Beautiful, Summer, Home

  Arthur Cleveland Bent (1949). “Life histories of North American thrushes, kinglets, and their allies: order Passeriformes”

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• I think men get nervous when women start counting the number of female senators, and whites become edgy when they hear the next Supreme Court seat will probably go to a Latino. This isn't always because they object to sharing the spoils, by the way; it just reminds us that the melting pot may not be working, and we haven't yet achieved the ambiguous national dream of becoming a nation of indistinguishable beige atheists.

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Dream, Atheist, Men

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• To me, the Craft is what Christianity was 2,000 years ago. It was a religion that was not corrupted. I personally think Jesus was a Crafter. We believe in all the things that he spoke of. The early Christians believed in reincarnation, and that was later removed from the belief system. Early Christians had a female Divinity, and that was taken out of their belief system, or as with Catholicism, replaced with Mary. Look at how incredible the growth in devotion of Mary is. It's amazing. The desire for a female Divinity is not just Wiccan. It speaks of a global need.

  Silver RavenWolf

  Christian, Jesus, Believe

  "The Truth about Witchcraft with Silver RavenWolf". Interview with Tim Miejan, www.edgemagazine.net. November 1, 1997.

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• Although the needs of babies have changed very little over the millennia, over the past decades, female equality in education and occupational opportunities has altered maternal expectations. This renders baby-care requirements discordant with ambition for many mothers, and produces heartfelt dilemmas for others.

  Joan Raphael-Leff

  Mother, Baby, Ambition

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• Childbearing is the most consistent of human events. Male and female alike, we have all been gestated inside a woman's body. As a phenomenon, childbearing is seemingly eternal and universal, yet like no other it highlights the gender divide, the singularity of individual experience and sociocultural diversities.

  Joan Raphael-Leff

  Diversity, Males, Events

  Joan Raphael-Leff (2000). “Spilt Milk: Perinatal Loss & Breakdown”, p.1951, Karnac Books

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