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"Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony."
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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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"You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one."
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"The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue."
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"In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits."
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"What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce."
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"Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths."
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"I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay."
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"Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible."
Hope

"Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have."
Truth

"The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written."
Process

"The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends."
Friendship

"Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do."
Art

"Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies."
Enemy

"Education is not so important as people think."
Education

"It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets."
Friendship

"That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things."
Woman

"Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain."
War
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