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"One is not born a woman, but becomes one."
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"Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony."
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"It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before."
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"There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade."
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"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."
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"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness."
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"I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians."
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"We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution."
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"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked."
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"I hate women because they always know where things are."
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"Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!"
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"Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority."
Society

"All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them."
Power

"When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior."
Equality

"If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat."
Victory

"Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself."
Truth

"The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them."
Love

"What is an adult? A child blown up by age."
Age

"Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen."
Life

"The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels."
Originality

"I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity."
Infinity
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