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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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Personal Development
"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked."
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Personal Development
"The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue."
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Personal Development
"Every woman is just a different kind of problem."
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Personal Development
"Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!"
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Personal Development
"An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity."
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Personal Development
"A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me."
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Personal Development
"I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer."
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"Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation."
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"Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice."
Money
"Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so."
Family
"A commitment to sexual equality with males is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered."
Equality
"The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable."
Genius
"You think intercourse is a private act; it's not, it's a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life; and women are sexually manipulative. When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love."
Love
"Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are astonished. Women do not believe that men believe what pornography says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best of them, they do."
Man
"Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it."
Man
"Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use."
Intelligence
"Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us."
Man
"Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a symbolic penis."
Beauty
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