Ashley Montagu - Women Quotes

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Women must be granted complete equality with men, for only when this has been done will they fully be able to realize themselves.

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Women are the mothers of humanity; do not let us ever forget that or underemphasize its importance. What mothers are to their children, so will man be to man.

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Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially.

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Women are the bearers, the nurtures of life; men have more often tended to be the curtailers, the destroyers of life.

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Women are the carriers of the true spirit of humanity — the love of the mother for her child. The preservation of that kind of love is the true function of women. And let me, at this point, endeavor to make it quite clear why I mean the love of a mother for her child and not the love of an equal for an equal or any other kind of love.

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The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.

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