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"I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement."
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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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"Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside."
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"Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning."
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"I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But the kicker is you have a responsibility to make the characters large enough that you will not have sinned against them."
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"I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement."
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"When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels."
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"Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me."
World
"Change, when it comes, cracks everything open."
Change
"One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt."
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