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Arianna Huffington Author, Businesswoman
Males

"The current male-dominated model of success - which equates success with burnout, sleep deprivation, and driving yourself into the ground - isn't working for women, and it's not working for men, either."

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John Lennon Musician, Activist
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"The women are very important too, we can't have a revolution that doesn't involve and liberate women. It's so subtle the way you're taught male superiority."

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Bell Hooks Author, Feminist, Social Activist
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"Imagine living in a world where there is no domination, where females and males are not alike or even always equal, but where a vision of mutuality is the ethos shaping our interaction."

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Angelina Grimke Activist
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"I prize the purity of his character as highly as I do that of hers. As a moral being, whatever it is morally wrong for her to do,it is morally wrong for him to do. The fallacious doctrine of male and female virtues has well nigh ruined all that is morally great and lovely in his character: he has been quite as deep a sufferer by it as woman, though mostly in different respects and by other processes."

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Wyndham Lewis Artist and Writer
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"Men were only made into 'men' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally 'a man' any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse."

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Yoko Ono Artist, Musician, Activist
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"I think that all women are witches, in the sense that a witch is a magical being. And a wizard, which is a male version of a witch, is kind of revered, and people respect wizards. But a witch, my god, we have to burn them."

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Melissa McCarthy Actress, Comedian
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"It's like I'm managing to achieve all this success in spite of my affliction ... Would you ever put that in the headline for a male star?"

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Carol P. Christ Scholar
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"Why does everyone cling to the masculine imagery and pronouns even though they are a mere linguistic device that has never meant that God is male?"

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Susan Sontag Essayist, Critic, Activist
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"The young-old polarization and the male-female polarization are perhaps the two leading stereotypes that imprison people."

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Bell Hooks Author, Feminist, Social Activist
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"Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?"

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Yoko Ono Artist, Musician, Activist
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"Society was built on male power, and women's power was... ignored is the best word to describe it I suppose, we have been running society on one power, half a power really. And that's so terrible. The world needs women's power too."

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Patricia Marx Author, Comedian
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"Perhaps the most mysterious of all mammals is the male Homo sapiens. Indeed, many anthropologists classify the group as a subspecies."

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