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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."
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"I knew I'd have to go to work in real estate or something else or I could never finish my novel."

"The more interesting the 9-to-5 work is, the more it takes away from my real work, which is writing."

"It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It's harder to stay where you are than to get out. For everyone but you, that is."

"It's astonishing what some women will put up with just to have a warm body. Some of the brightest women I know are just obsessed with that search. It's very sad."
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