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"Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female."
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"Women are made to be loved, not understood."
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"The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue."
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"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself."
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"Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!"
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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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"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."
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"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness."
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"Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation."
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"Every casting director I've met is a woman."
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"Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression."
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"Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere."
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"A story is told as much by silence as by speech."
Silence
"What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim."
Past
"I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from the earth, each other, ourselves."
History
"Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body."
Nature
"In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism."
Argument
"I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect."
Body
"Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female."
Woman
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