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We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It's not about being more powerful than men - it's about having equal rights with protection, support, justice. It's about very basic things. It's not a badge like a fashion item. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#badge #basic #basic things #being #empowerment

Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society. ↗

— Daniel De Leon

#force #inestimable #living #practical #sense

I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#i #i am #optimism #pessimism #story

I never thought of London in terms of possible heroes - of course, there are thousands. It's a very talented city. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#course #heroes #i #london #never

I thought that would go without saying, that if a mother gives up her children, it's very painful. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#course #heroes #i #london #never

I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.' ↗

— Doris Lessing

#course #heroes #i #london #never

I'm sure that everybody feels a kind of permanent anguish about what's going on in the world. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#anguish #everybody #feels #going #i

The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#expect #inside #labels #slap #talk

I think we have got to start thinking about banding together in terms of interested groups. ↗

— Arthur Levitt

#banding #got #groups #i #i think

I think it's very important not to confuse the importance of dealing with Social Security in the long term with these short-term deficit reduction challenges. They're different issues. ↗

— Jacob Lew

#confuse #dealing #deficit #deficit reduction #different