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"It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people's imagination, and all of them were very difficult women."
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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 know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvelous. It must be very inexpensive."

"It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have."

"What Democratic congressmen do to their women staffers, Republican congressmen do to the country."

"Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent."

"I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover."

"Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company."
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"Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?... I don't know the answer, I know only that I can't."

"In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power."

"That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key."

"Like, in high school, I was a good student and got straight As. It was very strict and you couldn't do well there unless you studied very hard, but every time there was any trouble, I was the first person they would be talking to."

"Sometimes I think that I was forced to withdraw into depression because it was the only rightful protest I could throw in the face of a world that said it was alright for people to come and go as they please, that there were simply no real obligations left."

"Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it."

"I'd really like to write a book about Timothy McVeigh, but it would only work if he cooperated."
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