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"If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Women are made to be loved, not understood."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue."

Samuel Richardson, English Novelist

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"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself."

Anais Nin, American Author

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"Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!"

Eleanor Roosevelt, American First Lady

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"I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me."

Jimmy Carter, American President

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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."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Let's stop pretending we can arrest our way to safety and security. Despite all the fine work that policemen and women do, we have got to find other solutions to deter crime."

Carrie P. Meek, American Politician

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"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be and the most pleasurable to have and to hold."

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"The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact."

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"It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast."

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"Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully."

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"A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men."

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"Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index."

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"As with most liberal sexual ideas, what makes the world a better place for men invariably makes it a duller and more dangerous place for women."

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"Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile."

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"Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man."

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