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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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"Every woman is just a different kind of problem."
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Personal Development
"I live in a house with four women. Just shut up and say, Yes, ma'am."
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Personal Development
"There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass."
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"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."
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"Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!"
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"I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman."
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"I hate women because they always know where things are."
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"Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances."
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"I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with Guess on it. I said, Thyroid problem?"
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"I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it."
Pain
"Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away."
Creativity
"Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred."
Courage
"This character's entirely invented, and the woman that I interviewed wouldn't recognize herself, or really anything about herself, in this book, which she hasn't read, because she doesn't read English."
Character
"What I really wanted to know, though, was what it was like to be a geisha? Where do you sleep? What do you eat? How do you have your hair done?"
Hair
"Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are."
Adversity
"Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one."
Woman
"It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have anything that corresponds to geisha."
Cultural
"What I had to do was keep the story within certain limits of what was, of course, plausible."
Writing
"We can never flee the misery that is within us."
Courage
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