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"If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women."
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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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"A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate."
Life
"I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth."
Truth
"If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women."
Woman
"You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true."
Theory
"Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs."
Dogs
"To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?"
Happiness
"I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed."
Husband
"I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence."
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