"New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage."

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"New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage."

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

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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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"The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness."

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"I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words."

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"The issue is privacy. Why is the decision by a woman to sleep with a man she has just met in a bar a private one, and the decision to sleep with the same man for $100 subject to criminal penalties?"

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"There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever."

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"Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts."

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"If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the mail."

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"America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security."

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