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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."
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"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
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"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."
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"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."
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"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."
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"No man may make another free."
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"Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men."
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"Do we elect a man because of what he stands for, because of where he stands on the issues, because how he makes the nation feel?"
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"In every author let us distinguish the man from his works."
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"We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have."
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"Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted."
Habit

"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."
Woman

"We in middle age require adventure."
Age

"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."
Love

"You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care."
Care

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

"Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions."
Adaptation

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

"Ideas move rapidly when their time comes."
Time

"Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate."
Animals
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