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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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"Much of the demand for women in combat comes from female officers who are eager for medals and promotions."
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"The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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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