"This is not a time when women..." - Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt
This is not a time when women should be patient. We are in a war and we need to fight it with all our ability and every weapon possible. Women pilots, in this particular case, are a weapon waiting to be used.
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“Life is like a parachute jump, you've got to get it right the first time.”
“No human being can ever "own" another, whether in friendship, love, marriage or parenthood. Many human relationships have been ruined and happiness far too often changed to misery by a failure to understand this.”
“The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.... In any case, the giving of love is an education in itself.”
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“Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world”
“Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it's quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid.”
“If there were only three women left in the world, two of them would immediately convene a court-martial to try the other one.”
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“We know the battle ahead will be long, but always remember that no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change. We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics. They will only grow louder and more dissonant. We've been asked to pause for a reality check. We've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.”
“We never gave up. We didn't get lost in a sea of despair. We kept the faith. We kept pushing and pulling. We kept marching. And we made some progress.”
“Nobody's ever tried the peace thing, ... We are selling it like soap.”