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"Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate."
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"My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it."

"Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you sever contact with your mothers."

"Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants."
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"Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed."


"To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice."


"Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it."


"The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible."
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