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Adrienne Rich Poet, Essayist, Feminist
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"Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women."

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Bette Davis Actress
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"It's a very independent male creature that lives alone, and a lot of independent females who live alone. It's all very sad but it's much easier for both sexes to do it this way nowadays."

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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
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"And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it."

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Simone de Beauvoir Philosopher, Writer
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"Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority."

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Walt Whitman Poet, Essayist
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"The female that loves unrequited sleeps, And the male that loves unrequited sleeps, The head of the money-maker that plotted all day sleeps, And the enraged and treacherous dispositions, all, all sleep."

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Charles Bukowski Poet, Novelist
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"The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation."

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Janet Guthrie Racing Driver
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"Let me ask you. If someone called you and offered you a ride in the Indianapolis 500 and you were a male race car driver, would you turn the ride down?"

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Shelley Winters Actress
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"In those days, young stars, male and female, were all virgins until married, and if divorced, they returned magically to that condition."

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Rita Mae Brown Author, Activist
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"Femininity and masculinity are social constructs. Female and male are biological. We don't have to learn to be men or women but we do have to learn to be ladies and gentlemen."

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