"Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them."

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"We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution."

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"Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony."

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"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness."

"I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians."

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