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"I tell women not to believe everything they read about fashion."
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"There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass."
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"After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi."
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"There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner."
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"Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company."
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"Chandler's the guy everybody thinks will do well with women, but he thinks too much and says the wrong thing."
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"Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?"
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"The real ornament of a woman is her character, her purity."
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"But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire."
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"A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression."
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"For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words."
Success
"Most of my stories have some basis in fact."
Fact
"I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in a monastery and never met any women, maybe it would be difficult."
Woman
"With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then."
Chance
"James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond."
Food
"My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era."
War
"Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative."
Woman
"An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit."
Woman
"World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine writers will continue to get stories from it, and readers will continue to love them, for many more years."
Love
"In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she's a strong character. She does change the plot. She'll often rescue the male character from some situation."
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