Maud Younger quotes
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“A trade unionist - of course I am. First, last, and all the time. How else to strike at the roots of the evils undermining the moral and physical health of women? How else grapple with the complex problems of employment, overemployment, and underemployment alike, resulting in discouraged, undernourished bodies, too tired to resist the onslaughts of disease and crime?”
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“We have so many ideas about things we have never tried.”
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“It is not pleasant to have a stranger doubt your respectability.”
-- Maud Younger
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“Married sex is like being awake during your own autopsy. It is root canal work without anesthetic.”
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Source : Abraham Joshua Heschel, Harold Kasimow (1991). “No Religion Is an Island: Abraham Joshua Heschel and Interreligious Dialogue”, Orbis Books
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