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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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"Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs."
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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."
Woman
"I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence."
Thought
"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
"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
"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
"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."
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"The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing."
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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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"It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before."
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"There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade."
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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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"I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians."
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"We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution."
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"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked."
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"I hate women because they always know where things are."
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