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"Mrs. MacAndrew shared the common opinion of her sex that a man is always a brute to leave a woman who is attached to him, but that a woman is much to blame if he does."
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"Most often women want happiness and men want wilderness."
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"When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women."
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"And a woman by herself is missing a man, while a man by himself is his own master. Trousers. That's the secret. Trousers and a pair of socks. I never dreamed it was like this. Put on trousers and the world changes. We walk different. We act different. I see these girls and I think: Idiot's Get yourself some trousers!"
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"Women often forget that the man she is complaining about is a creation of a mother like her."
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"Women are soft, loving, and kind. Do not mistake softness and kindness as weakness. Water is soft, but stone cannot break the water. However, water can break the stone."
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"Female is female."
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"When women agree with me I always do the other thing."
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"Women most often have a difficult enemy and she is a woman and not a man."
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"What a hundred caring, courageous and conscientious women can achieve in ten years, would take a thousand men a hundred years."
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"What is a strong woman? One whose very embrace can weaken the knees and soften the heart of the one she embraces, not by force, but by love which is the strongest force of all."
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"Perhaps her faults and follies, the unhappiness she had suffered, were not entirely vain if she could follow the path that now she dimly discerned before her, not the path that kind funny old Waddington had spoken of that led nowhither, but the path those dear nuns at the convent followed so humbly, the path that led to peace."
Faith


"I thought with melancholy how an author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do."
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"You cannot write unless you write much."
Writing


"They will notdisappoint you, and you will look upon them morecharitably. Men seek but one thing in life-their pleasure."
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"He knew that she had been dreaming that night and he knew what her dreams were about. She had forgotten them. He forebode to look at her. It gave him a grim, horrible, and rather uncanny sensation to think that a vivid, lacerating life could go on when one sunk in unconsciousness, a life so real that it could cause tears to stream down the face and twist the mouth in woe, and yet when the sleeper woke left no recollection behind."
Dreams


"I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp."
Creativity


"You've been brought up like a gentleman and a Christian, and I should be false to the trust laid upon me by your dead father and mother if I allowed you to expose yourself to such temptation.'Well, I know I'm not a Christian and I'm beginning to doubt whether I'm a gentleman,' said Philip."
Identity


"If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write."
Creativity


"To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life."
Reading


"When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself?"
Sacrifice
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