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Nature herself has bestowed upon women superior gifts of love and mercy.
-- Moderata Fonte (The Worth of Women, 1600)
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Men are unlit lamps; it is we who give them light and make them shine.
-- Moderata Fonte (Modesta Pozzo) (The Worth of Women (English translation), 1600 (work), 1997 (translation))
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The more enlightened a society becomes, the more it will acknowledge the superior moral sense of women.
-- Eliza Burt Gamble (The Evolution of Woman, 1894)
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A strong woman looks a challenge dead in the eye and gives it a wink.
-- Gina Carey (Interview, 2005)
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If the male is an incomplete female, then only women are whole.
-- Valerie Solanas (SCUM Manifesto, 1967)