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"The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste."
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"The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue."
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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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"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness."
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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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"If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all."
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"So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it."
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"People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it."
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"There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile."
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"The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other."
Love
"Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves."
Love
"When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues."
Love
"It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time."
Time
"Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps."
Nature
"All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual."
Art
"To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure."
Pleasure
"In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls."
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"Behind every great fortune lies a great crime."
Crime
"A man is a poor creature compared to a woman."
Man
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