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For no country is a true democracy whose women have not an equal share in life with men, and until we realize this we shall never achieve a real democracy on this earth.

Pearl S. Buck

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Pearl S. Buck
Age: 80 †
Born: 1892
Born: June 26
Died: 1973
Died: March 6
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Human Rights Activist
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Hillsboro
Oregon
Pearl Buck
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker
John Sedges
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the heart never grows old.
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It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundreth with a beauty.
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He was part of a whole, a people scattered over the earth and yet eternally one and indivisible. Wherever a Jew lived, in whatever safety and isolation, he still belonged to his people.
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Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.
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It certainly must have been a relief for women of the country to realize that one could be a woman and a lady and yet be thoroughly political.
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No daughter is ever her mother's darling. That spot is always reserved for the son.
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The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change.
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Euthanasia is a long, smooth-sounding word, and it conceals its danger as long, smooth words do, but the danger is there, nevertheless.
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As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.
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