"Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves."

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"Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves."

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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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"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked."

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"In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits."

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"What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce."

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"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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"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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"I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel."

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"Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious."

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"Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life."

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"Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin."

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