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"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked."

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"There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile."

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Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

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

"There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile."

"Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form."

"Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers."

"No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference."

"The real ornament of a woman is her character, her purity."

"In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits."

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"The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity."

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"Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity."

"Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it."

"Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them."

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