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"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked."
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"Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!"
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"There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile."
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"Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form."
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"Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers."
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"No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference."
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"The real ornament of a woman is her character, her purity."
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"In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits."
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"I entered the cosmetics industry because I wanted more women to use cosmetics made with safe, healthful ingredients."
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"The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity."
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Explore more quotes by Anita Brookner


"Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography."
Man


"It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to."
Home


"Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy."
Friendship


"You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't."
Love


"Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society."
Religion


"Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of."
Business


"Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted."
Attention


"You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish."
Creativity


"Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long."
Life


"Great writers are the saints for the godless."
Literature
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