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"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."
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"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness."
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"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked."
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"You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one."
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"The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue."
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"What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce."
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"Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths."
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"I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay."
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"Every woman is just a different kind of problem."
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"The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness."
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"One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry."
Poetry

"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

"I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well."
Impression

"The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time."
Time

"I have never sought the reason why I write."
Reason

"Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps."
World

"All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is."
Research

"Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium."
Suspicion

"Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing."
Woman

"Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry."
Television
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