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“No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor. ”
― Betty Friedan

“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“Some leaders are born women.”
― Geraldine Ferraro

“Creativity takes courage. ”
― Henri Matisse

“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
― Pablo Neruda, Love: Ten Poems

“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
― Albert Camus

“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest — whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories — comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer.”
― Albert Camus

“There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.”
― Marshall McLuhan

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“If you want to be happy, be.”
― Leo Tolstory

“Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand."

- Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina}”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina