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"When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women."
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"Some men are so indoctrinated that they sincerely believe that other than cooking and cleaning the only thing that a woman can do better than them is being a woman."

"Women most often have a difficult enemy and she is a woman and not a man."

"You see only the cat's paw, Signor Tartini, whereas I see the sharp claws hidden in that paw!.. Women are like fire; they warm you from afar, and when you enter into them they burn you to ashes!"

"What a hundred caring, courageous and conscientious women can achieve in ten years, would take a thousand men a hundred years."

"To a misogynist: To err is woman."

"In the Bible, a woman was made from a man. In real life, a man is made from a woman."

"Women rescue men just as much as, if not more than, men rescue women."

"A man wants to see a woman as an angel of imagination, but a woman wants to prove that she is a person."

"Women are binding and men are commanding."
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"Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution."

"I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly."

"It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs."

"Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry."
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