The Rubicons which women must cross, the sex barriers which they must breach, are ultimately those that exist in their own minds.
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It is not only by the questions we have answered that progress may be measured, but also by those we are still asking.
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The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.
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Woman throughout the ages has been mistress to the law, as man has been its master.
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If one would discern the centers of dominance in any society, one need only look to its definitions of 'virtue' and 'vice' or 'legal' and 'criminal,' for, in the strength to set standards, resides the strength to maintain control.
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