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"I tell women not to believe everything they read about fashion."
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"There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass."
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"I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine."
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"After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi."
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"There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner."
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"Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company."
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"Women were freed from positive duties when they could not perform them, but not when they could."
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"Chandler's the guy everybody thinks will do well with women, but he thinks too much and says the wrong thing."
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"Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?"
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"The real ornament of a woman is her character, her purity."
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"It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others."
Mind
"One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read."
Opportunity
"It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles."
Art
"Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps."
World
"The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading."
Work
"Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing."
Woman
"I have never sought the reason why I write."
Reason
"I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster."
People
"The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time."
Time
"The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me."
Act
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