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"The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue."
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"Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!"
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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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"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness."
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"Every casting director I've met is a woman."
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"Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression."
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"If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all."
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"So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it."
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"People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it."
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"There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile."
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"You know, the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read about it the next morning in the newspaper."
Man
"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
"This time all the historical details and things were right. But I'd written it again in third person, and people found it dry. I decided to throw that one away."
Time
"Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was kind of fascinating and ended up reading about the subject just about the same time I was getting interested in writing fiction."
Time
"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
"We can never flee the misery that is within us."
Courage
"Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away."
Creativity
"I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it."
Pain
"I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha."
Work
"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
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