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In ... reality, the Amazon kingdoms not only comprise an extremist end of matriarchy but also are a beginning and a purpose in themselves. [They] ... exclud[e] ... everything male except some enslaved boy cripples[.]
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She was an Amazon. Her whole life was spent riding at breakneck speed towards the wilder shores of love.


— 1954  The Wilder Shores of Love, pt.2, ch.1.

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Collective intelligence. Think of how Wikipedia works, how Amazon harnesses user annotation on its site, the way photo-sharing sites like Flickr are bleeding out into other applications... We're entering an era in which software learns from its users and all of the users are connected.

tim o'reilly

— When asked "What innovation will most alter how we live in the next few years, as quoted in TIME magazine (24 October 2005)

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It'd be like a bunch of rivers, the Amazon and the Mississippi and the Congo asking how the Atlantic Ocean might affect them… and the answer is, of course, that they won't be rivers anymore, just currents in the ocean.

douglas adams

— His stated response to representatives of the music, publishing and broadcasting industries who had asked Douglas at a conference how he thought technological changes will affect them, apparently hoping his response would be something to the effect of, "not very much"

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I am not saying that a female-dominated or Amazon society based on the oppression of men is any more "just" than is a male-dominated society based on the oppression of women. I am merely pointing out in what ways it is better for women. [¶] Perhaps someday a choice between forms of injustice will not be necessary.

phyllis chesler

— Women and Madness (2005), p. 338 (emphasis in original), and see Women and Madness (1972), pp. 287–288 (similar text).

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Stay, stay thy hands! thou art an Amazon, And fightest with the sword of Deborah .


— Charles to Joan la Pucelle, scene ii (Act I)

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Charles: Stay, stay thy hands! thou art an Amazon And fightest with the sword of Deborah.


— To Joan la Pucelle (Joan of Arc), after fighting and losing to her.
— Henry VI, Part I, Act I, scene ii.

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