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Max Beerbohm

"Most women are not as young as they are painted."

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"The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce."

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"Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness."

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"There have been 111 Justices in the Supreme Court of the United States. Only three have been women. If she is confirmed, Solicitor General Kagan will bring the Supreme Court to an historical high-water mark, with three women concurrently serving as Justices."

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"They wanted to make her less rural, less of a cartoon. Not that Southern woman are cartoonish - they're the strongest women in this country, but with Val they wanted to take the stereotypical things out."

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"Women are the first to jump on what is fashionable."

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"Women are like ovens. We need 5 to 15 minutes to heat up."

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"Even now, after whatever gains feminism has made in involving fathers in the rearing of their children, I still think virtually all of us spend the most formative years of our lives very much in the presence of women."

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