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Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and, roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

Mary Wollstonecraft

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects. Boston: Thomas and Andrews/London: J. Johnson, 1792, ch. 3.

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Wollstonecraft, Mary. "A Vindication of the Rights of Women." A Vindication of the Rights of Women and A Vindication of the Rights of Men, edited by Janet Todd. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 3.

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You steer the ship the best way you know. Sometimes it's smooth, sometimes you hit the rocks.

Junior Soprano

The Sopranos

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"He Is Risen." The Sopranos, written by David Chase and Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, directed by Allen Coulter, season 3, episode 8, Chase Films and Home Box Office, 2001.

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No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.

John Stuart Mill

The Subjection of Women

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Mill, John Stuart. The Subjection of Women. London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1869, ch. 2.

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Mill, John Stuart. "The Subjection of Women." On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 2.

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There is a smile of love,
And there is a smile of deceit,
And there is a smile of smiles
In which these two smiles meet.

William Blake

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Blake, William. "The Smile." Songs of Innocence and Experience, with Other Poems. London: Basil Montagu Pickering, 1866.

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Blake, William. "The Smile." William Blake: Selected Poems, edited by Nicholas Shrimpton. Oxford University Press, 2019.

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There is a pleasure sure,
In being mad, which none but madmen know!

John Dryden

The Spanish Friar, or the Double Discovery

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Dryden, John. The Spanish Friar, or the Double Discovery. c. 1680, Duke's Theatre, London, England, UK, act 2, sc. 2.

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Dryden, John. "The Spanish Fryar." The Works of John Dryden, edited by Vinton A. Dearing and Alan Roper. Vol. 14, University of California Press, 1992, act 2, sc. 2.

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It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people - women as well as men.

Susan B. Anthony

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Anthony, Susan B. Speech made after she was arrested for casting an illegal vote in the presidential election of 1872. 5 Nov. 1872, Rochester, NY, USA.

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None of you ask for anything-except everything, but just for so long as you need it.

Doris Lessing

The Golden Notebook

On men.

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Lessing, Doris. The Golden Notebook. Michael Joseph, 1962.

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Chaos isn’t a pit. Chaos is a ladder.

Game of Thrones

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"The Climb." Game of Thrones, written by George R.R. Martin and David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, directed by Alik Sakharov, season 3, episode 6, Television 360 and Startling, 2013.

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The most valuable commodity I know of is information.

Gordon Gekko

Wall Street

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Wall Street. Directed by Oliver Stone, American Entertainment Partners/American Films, 1987.

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A plague o' both your houses!

William Shakespeare

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Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet. London: John Danter, 1597, act 3, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "Romeo and Juliet." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 1.

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Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions, which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, they are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

Mary Wollstonecraft

A Vindiction of the Rights of Woman

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Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects. Boston: Thomas and Andrews/London: J. Johnson, 1792, ch. 4.

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Wollstonecraft, Mary. "A Vindication of the Rights of Women." A Vindication of the Rights of Women and A Vindication of the Rights of Men, edited by Janet Todd. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 4.

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I have spread my dreams under your feet.
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

W.B. Yeats

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Yeats, William Butler. "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven." The Wind Among Reeds. New York and London: John Lane: The Bodley Head, 1899.

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Yeats, William Butler. "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven." W. B. Yeats: The Major Works, edited by Edward Larrissy. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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We fear change.

Garth Algar

Wayne's World

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Wayne's World. Directed by Penelope Spheeris, Paramount Pictures, 1992.

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You know how they say we only use 10 percent of our brains? I think we only use 10 percent of our hearts.

Wedding Crashers

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Wedding Crashers. Directed by David Dobkin. New Line Cinema/Tapestry Films, 2005.

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People call these things imperfections, but they're not. That's the good stuff and then we get to choose who we let into our weird little worlds.

Good Will Hunting

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Good Will Hunting. Directed by Gus Van Sant, Be Gentlemen, 1997.

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As to religion, I hold it to be the indispensable duty of all government, to protect all conscientious professors thereof, and I know of no other business which government hath to do therewith.

Thomas Paine

Common Sense

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Paine, Thomas [published anonymously]. Common Sense. Philadelphia: R. Bell, sect. 4.

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Paine, Thomas. "Common Sense." Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings, edited by Mark Philp. Oxford University Press, 2009, sect. 4.

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Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking.

Airplane!

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Airplane! Directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker. Paramount Pictures/Howard W. Koch Productions, 1980.

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Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

John F. Kennedy

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Kennedy, John F. Address on the First Anniversary of the Alliance for Progress. 13 Mar. 1977, State Dining Room, The White House, Washington, DC, USA.

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