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"Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony."
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"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."
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"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness."
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"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked."
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"You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one."
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"The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue."
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"What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce."
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"Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths."
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"I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay."
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"Every woman is just a different kind of problem."
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"Our marriage is between us. If we decide to continue being together or not, it's our business."
Business

"I wasn't the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college."
Act

"Women were real box office stars in the '40s, more so than men. People loved to see women's films. I think it was better then, except for the studio system."
Woman

"I have a very highly developed sense of denial."
Denial

"If we were living in ancient Rome or Greece, I would be considered sickly and unattractive. The times dictate that thin is better for some strange reason, which I think is foolish."
Greece

"My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem."
Father

"My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much."
Death

"I was having such a hard time when I made Sylvia. I gave everything I had for that role. It's one or two or three things I'm most proud of in terms of my work. But it was very dark."
Time

"My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive."
Mother

"I understand that if you set out to be a celebrity, then you asked for it, but all I wanted to be was an actor."
Actor
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