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"I don't understand, then, why, in the midst of all this, pregnant women - women trying to make rational decisions about their futures and, usually, that of their families, too - should be subject to more pressure about preserving life than, say, Vladimir Putin, the World Bank, or the Catholic Church."
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"There's a flipside to this; if you as an individual have the right to live on your own terms, you must have the right to both succeed and fail on them."
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"Once you've chosen a man, don't try to change him, I wrote, with more confidence. It can't be done. More important -- don't let him try to change you. He can't do it either, but men always try."
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"Without asking her permission, someone is trying to intrude her life, draw her attention, in short, to bother her."
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"First, let no one rule your mind or body. Take special care that your thoughts remain unfettered... . Give men your ear, but not your heart. Show respect for those in power, but don't follow them blindly. Judge with logic and reason, but comment not. Consider none your superior whatever their rank or station in life. Treat all fairly, or they will seek revenge. Be careful with your money. Hold fast to your beliefs and others will listen."
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"My opinion is, of course, completely my own. I would not impose it on anyone else and decline any pressure to change it."
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"It is only just that anything that grows up on its own should feel it has nothing to repay for an upbringing which it owes no one."
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"You had to live in your own bubble. You couldn't force your way into someone else's, because then it wouldn't be a bubble any more."
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"If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last."
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"As a writer no one's gonna tell me how to write, I'm gonna write the way I wanna write!"
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"There was no better path to autonomy for an ambitious young businesswoman than to be married off to a respectable corpse."
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"I am a massive slag!" I think to myself, in a motivational way. "I'm a Lady Sex Adventuress! I'm a Pirate of Privates! I'm a swashfuckler!" ... I think of "Teenage Whore" by Courtney Love as my personal anthem."
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"When a woman says, 'I have nothing to wear!', what she really means is, 'There's nothing here for who I'm supposed to be today."
Identity
"The idea that I might not-- in an earlier era, or a different country-- have a choice in the matter seems both emotionally and physically barbaric."
Freedom
"Personally, I feel the time has come for women to introduce their own Zero Tolerance policy on the Broken Window issues in our lives - I want a Zero Tolerance policy on "All the Patriarchal Bullshit."
Feminism
"You can always tell when a woman is with the wrong man, because she has so much to say about the fact that nothing's happening."
Relationship
"And every book, you find, has its own social group--friends of its own it wants to introduce you to, like a party in the library that need never, ever end."
Reading
"The problem with battling yourself is that even if you win, you lose."
Conflict
"I'm so glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely."
Regret
"There's no self-expression or joy in these joints-- no springboard to self-discovery, or adventure, like any decent night out involving men, women, alcohol, and taking your clothes off. Why do many people have a gut reaction to strip clubs? Because inside them, no one is having fun."
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"Not one had ever passed judgement on my cheap handbag to my face. But then, this is a reserved country."
Judgment
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