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"For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband."
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"A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists."
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Personal Development
"It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women - but he can think of them as he ought - as sisters, not as sparring partners."
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"I never analyze why I was with one woman instead of another."
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"No matter what else they're doing, women are also always nurturing."
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"Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women."
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"One of the speakers asked how many women had been harassed or abused sexually in their life? There were thousands of women in the audience, and almost every one of them raised her hand."
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"Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: 'This looks much better on.' On what? On fire?"
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"Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints."
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"To this day I get mail from women who say, I went to law school because of your song. But I would hate to think out of the wide spectrum of things I have done in my career, that's all I would be remembered for."
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"It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have anything that corresponds to geisha."
Cultural
"Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away."
Creativity
"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
"What I had to do was keep the story within certain limits of what was, of course, plausible."
Writing
"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
"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
"I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it."
Pain
"We can never flee the misery that is within us."
Courage
"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
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