"Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be."

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"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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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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"What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce."

Mark Twain, American Author

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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."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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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."

Bette Davis, American Actress

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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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"There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most."

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"True feeling justifies whatever it may cost."

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"Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers."

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"One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being."

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"Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there."

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"Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!"

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"The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become."

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