"There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed."

Germaine Greer, Australian Activist

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"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."

bell hooks, American Critic

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"Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our "beauty" so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air."

Naomi Wolf, American Author

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"Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy."

Erica Jong, American Novelist

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"This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"The farm women are extremely well organized and are bound to be heard from."

Edith Rogers, American Politician

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"A woman at 20 is like ice, at 30 she is warm and at 40 she is hot."

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"Why can't a woman be more like a dog, huh? So sweet, loving, attentive."

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"The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed."

"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."

"Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our "beauty" so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air."

"Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being."

"You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy."

"This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room."

"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked."

"The farm women are extremely well organized and are bound to be heard from."

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"If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss."

"Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt."

"To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die."

"We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves."

"You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one."

"The mind is always the patsy of the heart."

"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."