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"The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed."

"I live in a house with four women. Just shut up and say, Yes, ma'am."

"The literature of women's lives is a tradition of escapees, women who have lived to tell the tale."

"And there is a beautiful thing which is wonderful, to look like a woman, not a green bean."
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"The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air."

"When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans."

"Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior."

"In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons."
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