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Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it.
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To ignore [the] great social facts — political facts, if you please — and over-emphasize the old moral responsibility of the 'domestic' mother is a hollow mockery and betrays a hopeless ignorance of industrial and urban conditions in the Twentieth Century.... Everything that counts in the common life is political.
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The precedents for feminine self-expression run back through all the ages since the art of writing was invented.... The era may witness the first female engineer, motor truck chauffeur, radio broadcaster, head of an aviation school, or federal prohibition officer, but it has not produced the first thinking, creative, and writing woman by any means.
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The 'public' — a term often used in America to indicate the great metropolitan newspapers.
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It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism.
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In brief, we who write are all in the same boat, as if we are survivors of torpedoes, and we hope to reach the shores of thought with strength for more activity.
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Every revolution has its counter-revolution.
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The trade agreement has become a rather distinct feature of the American labor movement.... It is based on the idea that labor shall accept the capitalist system of production and make terms of peace with it.
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Democracy cannot sustain itself amid a high degree of violence.
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Despite the modern dogma to the effect that women were a subject sex until the nineteenth century 'emancipated' them from history, women in history had demonstrated strong wills and purposes, had made assertions, and had directed or influenced all human destiny, including their own, since human life began.
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The volumes which record the history of the human race are filled with the deeds and the words of great men... [but] The Twentieth Century Woman... questions the completeness of the story.
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The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to man must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind.
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Could anyone fail to be depressed by a book he or she has published? Don't we always outgrow them the moment the last page has been written?
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If this analysis of history is approximately sound and if the future like the past is to be crowded with changes and exigencies, then it is difficult to believe that the feminism of the passing generation, already hardened into dogma and tradition, represents the completed form of woman's relations to work, interests and society.
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Those who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world of toiling reality below has been lifted by mass revolts and critics.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Carrie Chapman Catt
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Born:
August 5, 1876
Died:
August 14, 1958
(aged 82)
Known for:
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
The Rise of American Civilization (1927)
Making Women's History
A woman making history
Pompeii
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