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Anita Brookner

"Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything."

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"Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything."

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"One is not born a woman, but becomes one."

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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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"Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go."

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"I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot."

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"At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone."

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"To see a player dunk in women's college basketball is just amazing. It's great to see that the game has reached that level now."

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"The truth is there are two hundred white women raped in America by a black man for every one black woman raped by whites."

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"Forcing women in or near land combat will hurt recruiting, not help."

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"Much of the demand for women in combat comes from female officers who are eager for medals and promotions."

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"Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women."

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