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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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"The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write."
Nothing
"The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence."
Age
"She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years."
Woman
"If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear."
Death
"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."
Life
"I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell."
Awareness
"I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes."
Life
"Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people."
People
"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."
Genius
"Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write."
Writing
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