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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."

"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."

"I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot."

"At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone."

"To see a player dunk in women's college basketball is just amazing. It's great to see that the game has reached that level now."

"Much of the demand for women in combat comes from female officers who are eager for medals and promotions."
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"The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find."

"That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy."

"The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes."

"There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control."

"Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience."

"Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit."

"The Rubicons which women must cross, the sex barriers which they must breach, are ultimately those that exist in their own minds."
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