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Women: The Root of All Evil?
Author, congresswoman, and woman of the year Clare Booth Luce once said, "Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, ‘She doesn't have what it takes.' They will say, ‘Women don't have what it takes.'" Women have been continually downtrodden in society, and it reflects in our literature and media. Women have, throughout time, been treated like second-class citizens, and the problems still continue. Although women's treatment in first world countries has become almost equal to that of men, they are still looked down upon in most other parts of the world. Simone de Beauvoir wrote in her revolutionary work The Second Sex, that in order for women to become equal, they need to stand up to their oppressors and fight back. A woman's acceptance of her status is no one's fault but her own. For this reason women have taken many roles in revolutionary literature.
Women's lives have been built around......

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