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"The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue."
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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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"The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness."
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"Every casting director I've met is a woman."
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"Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression."
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"So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it."
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"People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it."
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"There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile."
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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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"Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children."
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"I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out."
Age

"This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes."
Creativity

"What I think happens, and that you have to acknowledge though, is that a director uses a book as a launching pad for his own work and that's always very flattering."
Work

"We're also far enough from the publishing power that we have no access to the politics of publishing, although there are interpersonal politics, of course."
Politics

"Let's just say, the American school of suburban angst is not my cup of tea."
Writing

"The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power."
Power

"The intense campaigns against domestic violence, rape, sexual harassment, and inequity in the schools all too often depend on an image of women as weak and victimized."
Woman

"I think genetic research is a fascinating and fertile area."
Research

"In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool."
Survival

"But the idea that women can't take care of themselves still permeates our culture."
Woman
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