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Jean Giraudoux

"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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"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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"For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband."

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"A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists."

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"It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women - but he can think of them as he ought - as sisters, not as sparring partners."

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"I never analyze why I was with one woman instead of another."

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"No matter what else they're doing, women are also always nurturing."

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"Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women."

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"One of the speakers asked how many women had been harassed or abused sexually in their life? There were thousands of women in the audience, and almost every one of them raised her hand."

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"Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: 'This looks much better on.' On what? On fire?"

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"Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints."

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"To this day I get mail from women who say, I went to law school because of your song. But I would hate to think out of the wide spectrum of things I have done in my career, that's all I would be remembered for."

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