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Miriam Beard

"It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks."

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"It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks."

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"At least 50 times. I've jumped off a building, jumped off a cliff in a car. I've been in bedrooms when women came in with knives and guns."

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"If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself."

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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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"Women are made to be loved, not understood."

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"The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue."

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"I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer."

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"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself."

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"Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!"

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"I like my women to be feminine, not sliding into tackles and covered in mud."

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"It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks."
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