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The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.

Victor Hugo Women, Man, Great
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We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.

Victor Hugo Women, Slavery, Name
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America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.

Woodrow Wilson Children, Women, Opportunity
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To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.

William Butler Yeats Women, Beautiful, School
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I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should play in their lives with their children and in their lives with their women.

Will Smith Children, Women, Men
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Everything I write has to be connected to my life. One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women.

Isabel Allende Life, Women, Freedom
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In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all their courage today.

Isabel Allende Children, Women, Courage
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The poorest and most backward societies are always those that put women down.

Isabel Allende Women, Down, Always
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Empowering women means trusting them.

Isabel Allende Women, Empowering, Them
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The media could do a much better job, that's for sure, especially the media that targets women... Human rights? They couldn't care less!

Isabel Allende Women, Job, Media
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One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women. I always write about women who are marginalized, who have no means or resources and somehow manage to get out of those situations with incredible strength - and that is more important than anything.

Isabel Allende Strength, Women, Freedom
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Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights.

Isabel Allende Children, Women, Fight
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If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so.

Isabel Allende Women, Grandchildren, World
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Men's memoirs are about answers; women's memoirs are about questions. Most male authors want to look good in their memoirs and have a place in posterity, while most women know that posterity is what happens when you no longer care. Women want to connect with others here and now; they couldn't care less about legacy!

Isabel Allende Women, Good, Men
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Today's girls are tomorrow's women - and leaders.

Isabel Allende Today, Women, Tomorrow
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Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.

Isabel Allende Marriage, Children, Women
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Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets.

Isabel Allende Women, World, Own
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For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men.

Isabel Allende Change, Women, Power
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I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.

Isabel Allende Peace, Women, Together
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The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

Queen Elizabeth II Women, History, Heart
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Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

Will Rogers Women, Money, Things
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A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

Walt Whitman Women, Great, Men
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But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

W. E. B. Du Bois Women, Fire, Black
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.

W. E. B. Du Bois Day, Home, Women
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