Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband’s often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says “What would I do without you?” is already destroyed. —Germaine Greer, writer, broadcaster, academic, and feminist

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Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it. —Germaine Greer, writer, broadcaster, academic, and feminist

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I didn’t fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover. —Germaine Greer, writer, broadcaster, academic, and feminist

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The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough. —Germaine Greer, writer, broadcaster, academic, and feminist

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And who knows? Somewhere out there in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president’s spouse. I wish him well! —Barbara Bush, former First Lady

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Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that. —Barbara Bush, former First Lady

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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. —Abigail Adams, former First Lady

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The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women. —Betty Ford, former First Lady

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It’s odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don’t quite fully share the hell of someone close to you. —Lady Bird Johnson, former First Lady

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom. —Lady Bird Johnson, former First Lady

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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom. —Lady Bird Johnson, former First Lady

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When Harvard men say they have graduated from Radcliffe, then we’ve made it. —Jacqueline Kennedy Onasis, former First Lady

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