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"The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce."
"In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news."
"I like my women to be feminine, not sliding into tackles and covered in mud."
"Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness."
"There have been 111 Justices in the Supreme Court of the United States. Only three have been women. If she is confirmed, Solicitor General Kagan will bring the Supreme Court to an historical high-water mark, with three women concurrently serving as Justices."
"Women are like ovens. We need 5 to 15 minutes to heat up."
Explore more quotes by Edna O'Brien
"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."
"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?'"
"Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire."
"I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women."
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