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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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"The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue."
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"Every woman is just a different kind of problem."
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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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"An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity."
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"A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me."
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"I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer."
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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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"I think Ellenor is embarrassed and ashamed and has devoted all of her energy to the law and to helping other people get justice because it's too difficult for her to face her own struggle for justice."
People

"For a long time, I really struggled with the idea of being an actor because I really felt that I should be in the Peace Corps."
Peace

"Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?"
Celebrity

"I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf."
People

"Almost everything I do is related to being fat."
Being

"I have lived my life in a culture that hates fat people."
Life

"When it comes to boys and her weight, I think Ellenor is much more conservative than I am, and she has not had the dialogue I have had about my weight."
Boys

"I think the play actually became bigger than me. No pun intended."
Play

"I hate overweight, because it implies that there's a weight standard I should be adhering to."
Hate

"Nobody else knew what to do with me because big women are old."
Woman
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