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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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"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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"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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"The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity."
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"No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference."
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Explore more quotes by Barbara Smith
"Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be."
Woman
"You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness."
Experience
"Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish."
Faith
"One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female."
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"Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration."
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"This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite."
Innovation
"A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound scepticism that white people can actually be oppressed."
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