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"The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed."

"I live in a house with four women. Just shut up and say, Yes, ma'am."

"There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass."

"If we hold true to our ideals and our commitment to freedom, this generation of servicemen and women will have extended liberty to the Iraqi people, just as previous generations of Americans have all across the globe."

"Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference."
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"Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable."

"I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate."

"It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him."

"I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met."

"You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable."

"In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that."

"The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it."
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