"All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations."

Woman, Women, World

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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."

Germaine Greer, Australian Activist

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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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"What Democratic congressmen do to their women staffers, Republican congressmen do to the country."

Bill Maher, American Comedian

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"Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go."

Erma Bombeck, American Journalist

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"Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown."

Erma Bombeck, American Journalist

Woman, Women, Kids

"Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our "beauty" so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air."

Naomi Wolf, American Author

Woman, Women, Approval, Identity, Self

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

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy."

Erica Jong, American Novelist

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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."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Long hair is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket."

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"The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real."

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"Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third."

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"My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb."

Strength

"Burning dinner is not incompetence but war."

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"When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting piglets of the appetites."

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"Shared laughter is erotic too."

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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."

"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."

"What Democratic congressmen do to their women staffers, Republican congressmen do to the country."

"Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent."

"Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go."

"Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown."

"Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our "beauty" so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air."

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

"You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy."

"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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"Love as if you liked yourself, and it may happen."

"It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover."

"Never doubt that you can change history. You already have."

"Long hair is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket."

"The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real."

"Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third."

"My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb."

"Burning dinner is not incompetence but war."

"When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting piglets of the appetites."

"Shared laughter is erotic too."