"Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for."

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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."

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Jane Austen, British Writer

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"One of the hardest things to believe is that anyone will abandon the effort to escape a charge of murder. It is extremely important to suspend disbelief on that. If you don't, the story is spoiled."

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"To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy."

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"If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story."

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"I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself."

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"To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all."

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"As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game."

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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'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer."

"What Democratic congressmen do to their women staffers, Republican congressmen do to the country."

"Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent."

"Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go."

"Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown."

"Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our "beauty" so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air."

"Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being."

"You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy."

"This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room."

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"One of the hardest things to believe is that anyone will abandon the effort to escape a charge of murder. It is extremely important to suspend disbelief on that. If you don't, the story is spoiled."

"To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy."

"Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for."

"If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story."

"I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself."

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"As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game."