“Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.”
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At a New York State convention, Rochester, N.Y. (1853), quoted in Kolmerten, Carol A., The American Life of Ernestine L. Rose, Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1999, p. 129-130.

Conversation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNwceWargfs&feature=youtu.be&t=2m10s with Alchian (1978); About Vera Lutz, published in Nobel Prize-Winning Economist: Friedrich A. von Hayek https://archive.org/details/nobelprizewinnin00haye (1983), p. 363
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"Sisterhood" in New York Magazine (20 December 1971), p. 49

“Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine.”
Homage to Catalonia (1938)

“When a woman behaves like a man, why doesn't she behave like a nice man?”
Observer (London, Sept. 30, 1956)

de Lauretis, Teresa (1984). "Desire in Narrative", Alice Doesn't, p.118-119. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0253203163.