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

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"No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference."

George Eliot, British Author

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"The real ornament of a woman is her character, her purity."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

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"In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits."

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian Actor

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"The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Even if there are a lot women in films, there are few who are lesbians, that people know about."

Catherine Deneuve, French Actress

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"I hate women because they always know where things are."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself."

Anais Nin, American Author

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"Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"I should like to be the landscape which I am contemplating, I should like this sky, this quiet water to think themselves within me, that it might be I whom they express in flesh and bone, and I remain at a distance. But it is also by this distance that the sky and the water exist before me. My contemplation is an excruciation only because it is also a joy. I can not appropriate the snow field where i slide. It remains foreign, forbidden, but I take delight in this very effort toward an impossible possession. I experience it as a triumph, not as a defeat."

Nature

"At night I would climb the steps to the Sacre-Coeur, and I would watch Paris, that futile oasis, scintillating in the wilderness of space. I would weep, because it was so beautiful, and because it was so useless."

Beauty

"Symbolism did not fall out of heaven or rise out of subterranean depths: it was elaborated like language, by the human reality."

Art

"As far as I am concerned sexuality no longer exists. I used to call this indifference serenity: all at once I have come to see it in another light-it is a mutilation; it is the loss of a sense. The lack of it makes me blind to the needs, the pains, and the joys of those who do possess it."

Philosophy

"Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to."

Family

"There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless."

Environment

"Taking without being taken in the anguish of becoming prey is the dangerous game of adolescent feminine sexuality."

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"No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference."

"The real ornament of a woman is her character, her purity."

"In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits."

"The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity."

"Even if there are a lot women in films, there are few who are lesbians, that people know about."

"I hate women because they always know where things are."

"It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before."

"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself."

"Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons."

"The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness."

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"At night I would climb the steps to the Sacre-Coeur, and I would watch Paris, that futile oasis, scintillating in the wilderness of space. I would weep, because it was so beautiful, and because it was so useless."

"Symbolism did not fall out of heaven or rise out of subterranean depths: it was elaborated like language, by the human reality."

"My contemplation is an excruciation only because it is also a joy."

"Live with no time out."

"To lose confidence in one's body is to lose confidence in oneself."

"As far as I am concerned sexuality no longer exists. I used to call this indifference serenity: all at once I have come to see it in another light-it is a mutilation; it is the loss of a sense. The lack of it makes me blind to the needs, the pains, and the joys of those who do possess it."

"Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to."

"There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless."

"Taking without being taken in the anguish of becoming prey is the dangerous game of adolescent feminine sexuality."