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"I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence."
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"I tell women not to believe everything they read about fashion."
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"There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass."
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"After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi."
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"There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner."
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"Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company."
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"Chandler's the guy everybody thinks will do well with women, but he thinks too much and says the wrong thing."
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"Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?"
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"The real ornament of a woman is her character, her purity."
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"But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire."
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"A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression."
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"I think writers are very anxious."
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"I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence."
Woman
"At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was going on around me in society."
Society
"But there are some wounds that can never be healed."
Sadness
"The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall."
Nature
"It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth."
Age
"Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves."
Life
"Now, I - for several years while I was researching this book, I felt quite obsessed by thoughts about sentencing, punishment, how judges arrive at their decisions."
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"But I can't bear it when somebody who some man made a pass at - to call that violence seems to me absurd and insulting to women who've really met violence, who've been raped or bashed."
Woman
"But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be rivals. We were both working in fiction... so I look back and I see that I consciously vacated the contested ground."
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