"She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years."

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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."

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

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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."

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

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

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"To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven."

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"If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear."

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"The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence."

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"If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write."

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"I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell."

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"We pay when old for the excesses of youth."

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"Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself."

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"I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning."

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"The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write."

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"There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going."

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