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pepperbear

(5,648 posts)
Sat Feb 18, 2012, 11:04 PM Feb 2012

Ladies, if you please.

Last edited Mon Feb 20, 2012, 04:44 AM - Edit history (1)



"I have as much muscle as any man, and can do as much work as any man. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that?"

-Sojourner Truth



"Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation."

-Abigail Adams



"Men weren't really the enemy, they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill."

- Betty Friedan


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Ladies, if you please. (Original Post) pepperbear Feb 2012 OP
k and r and thank you niyad Feb 2012 #1
Don't want to be the old crank, but... Lifelong Protester Feb 2012 #2
yikes! thanks for the heads up and I am grateful we have longer to edit. pepperbear Feb 2012 #3
Betty Friedan >>>>>>>>>> Abigail Adams Zalatix Feb 2012 #4

Lifelong Protester

(8,421 posts)
2. Don't want to be the old crank, but...
Sun Feb 19, 2012, 03:12 AM
Feb 2012

I'd like this better if you removed Lucy Hayes from the line up of illustrations, or added a quote from her (if that is supposed to be Abigail Adams, it is not... sorry, not trying to be a nit picking so and so).

 

Zalatix

(8,994 posts)
4. Betty Friedan >>>>>>>>>> Abigail Adams
Mon Feb 20, 2012, 05:06 AM
Feb 2012

"Men weren't really the enemy" is far more logical and rational than "Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could."

Thanks, Betty Friedan. You were a real equalist.

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