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"She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years."
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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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"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked."
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"The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue."
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"Every woman is just a different kind of problem."
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"Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!"
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"An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity."
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"A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me."
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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."
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"Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation."
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"Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write."
Writing

"The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?"
Life

"There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent."
Talent

"The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate."
Communication

"Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile."
Society

"Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing."
Time

"Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats."
Lifestyle

"Western man is schizophrenic."
Man

"We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types."
Society

"To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness."
Happiness
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