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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 live in a house with four women. Just shut up and say, Yes, ma'am."

"There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass."

"If we hold true to our ideals and our commitment to freedom, this generation of servicemen and women will have extended liberty to the Iraqi people, just as previous generations of Americans have all across the globe."

"Schools are generally feminine places, institutions where conformity is valued, taught largely by conformist women."

"Women like silent men. They think they're listening."
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"A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer finds out what a novel is about, and the job becomes one of understanding and deepening or sharpening what is already written. That is finding the theme."

"But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it."

"Women have the feeling that since they didn't make the rules, the rules have nothing to do with them."
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