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

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

"Since Bush has been in office, African-American women have fallen behind in terms of income and wages."

"If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself."
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"I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness."

"In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: 'Is there someone new?'"

"I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women."

"Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire."

"My hand does the work and I don't have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. It's like a dam in the brain that bursts."
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