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"I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am."
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"The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue."
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"Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!"
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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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"Every casting director I've met is a woman."
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"Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression."
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"If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all."
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"So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it."
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"People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it."
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"There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile."
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"Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation."
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"One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace."
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"Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom."
Education
"There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people."
People
"We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth."
Nature
"The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life."
Life
"When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome."
Woman
"I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life."
Life
"There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth."
Imagination
"It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for."
People
"Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands."
Woman
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