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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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"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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"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked."
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"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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"The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue."
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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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"Every woman is just a different kind of problem."
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"I'm sure people in the business have said: She's too old for that part. I don't hear about it because your agent protects you from those negative things."
Business
"So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you."
Love
"Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period."
Success
"As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening."
Woman
"I do still get the odd fan letter about The Good Life, clearly written by somebody aged 18, who says: Will you send a photograph? And I think: Maybe it's kinder not to. I'm deeply into my 50s now."
Life
"When I was much younger, I sometimes felt rejected by feminists because of an image that I sold because it paid the bills. Any fool could tell my hair is dyed."
Fool
"When I was little I always thought I was marked out, special, on the verge of something momentous. I used to tingle with anticipation."
Thought
"The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark."
Years
"For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important."
Being
"I hope to start enjoying flirting again when I'm 70, like my mother did."
Mother
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