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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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Personal Development
"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."
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Personal Development
"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness."
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Personal Development
"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked."
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Personal Development
"You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one."
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Personal Development
"The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue."
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Personal Development
"What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce."
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Personal Development
"Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths."
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Personal Development
"I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay."
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Personal Development
"Every woman is just a different kind of problem."
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"Storytelling is an ancient and honorable act. An essential role to play in the community or tribe. It's one that I embrace wholeheartedly and have been fortunate enough to be rewarded for."
Act
"The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer."
Education
"My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history."
History
"And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey."
Desire
"One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons."
Motivational
"A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties."
Education
"If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work."
Life
"First of all it's usually women who run these higher primate sanctuaries, rarely men. They are white. They come from privileged backgrounds. They are educated."
Woman
"Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves."
Books
"What I am finding now is that my audience is getting younger as I get older, which is a very good thing as you know - you don't want them to get older as you get older."
Now
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