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You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.Jodi Picoult
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As soon as we were outside, I whipped my hand from his. 'What's the matter with you? You know he was wrong.' Stacey swallowed to flush his anger, then said gruffly, "I know it, and you know it, but he don't know it, and that's where the trouble is. Now come on before you get us into a real mess.Mildred D. Taylor
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Men can be relentless, " she agrees, "when they think a woman belongs to them.Rae Carson
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There's not a place in the whole world where everyone isn't willing--no, eager--to give a girl up to a man.Rae Carson
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This is a battlefield, Faith! Women find themselves on battlefields, just as men do. We are given no weapons, and cannot be seen to fight. But fight we must, or perish.Frances Hardinge
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Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.Paulo Freire
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We cannot buy it. We are too poor. Then men who have made the law have taken our own drink from us, and have not left us wherewith to buy it. Yet they can buy it, because they are rich. I have a feeling that that is not just. I do not grudge them their riches and all it can buy for them.Neil M. Gunn
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It’s not right that some people have so much and others have so little.Paula Stokes
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In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.Catharine A. MacKinnon
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I am he who cometh out of the depths. My lords, you are great and rich. There lies your danger. You profit by the night; but beware! The dawn is all-powerful. You cannot prevail over it. It is coming. Nay! it is come. Within it is the day-spring of irresistible light. And who shall hinder that sling from hurling the sun into the sky. The sun I speak of is Right. You are Privilege. Tremble!Victor Hugo
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One hour devoted to mourning and lamenting the Stolen equality of the weak is nobler than a Century filled with greed and usurpation.Kahlil Gibran
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Pity womankind, but never a woman.Warren Eyster
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People are like stars in the night sky, all are not equal, but still, everyone shines.Joe Mari Fadrigalan
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The low suffer most the blow of the lawAgona Apell
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John dear! " said I in the gentlest voice, "the key is down by the front steps, under a plantain leaf! " That silenced him for a few moments. Then he said–very quietly indeed, "Open the door, my darling! "" I can't, " said I. "The key is down by the front door under a plantain leaf! " And then I said it again, several times, very gently and slowly, and said it so often that he had to go and see, and he got it of course, and came in.Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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If human equality is to be for ever averted – if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently – then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.George Orwell
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I think it's wrong that only one percent of the people should own ninety percent of the country.Sally Wentworth
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The quest to remove all inequality is the deadening hand of socialism and results in social stagnation.Cory Bernardi
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Mistresses, have you ever noticed that when we disagree with a male — I hesitate to say ‘man’ — or find ourselves in a position over males, the first comment they make is always about our reputations or our monthlies?” One of the new women snorted. Others snicTamora Pierce
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I don't know about you, but I only have one life, and I don't want to spend it in a sewer of injustice.Wallace Shawn
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At its most basic, the logic of 'meritocracy' is ironclad: putting the most qualified, best equipped people into the positions of greates responsibility and import.. But my central contention is that our near-religious fidelity to the meritocratic model comes with huge costs. We overestimate the advantages of meritocracy and underappreciate its costs, because we don't think hard enough about the consequences of the inequality it produces. As Americans, we take it as a given that unequal levels of achievement are natural, even desirable. Sociologist Jermole Karabel, whose work looks at elite formation, once said he 'didnt think any advanced democracy is as obsessed with equality of opportunity or as relatively unconcerned with equality of condition' as the United States. This is our central problem. And my proposed solution for correcting the excesses of our extreme version of meritocracy is quite simple: make America more equal.Christopher L. Hayes
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Occupying the bottom end of the inequality ladder, and becoming a 'collateral victim' of a human action or a natural disaster, interact the way the opposite poles of magnets do: they tend to gravitate towards each other.Zygmunt Bauman
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Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.Mary Douglas
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Talking about income inequality, even if you're not on the Forbes 400 list, can make us feel uncomfortable. It feels less positive, less optimistic, to talk about how the pie is sliced than to think about how to make the pie bigger.Chrystia Freeland
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We don't have a divine right to success. So I agree with a lot of politicians out there when they say, 'We've got serious issues.' We do: immigration, infrastructure. I think income inequality's one of them.Jamie Dimon