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Erma Bombeck: Humor is a...

Erma Bombeck: Humor is a...

Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It's unbridled, it's unplanned, it's full of...

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Dorothy Thompson: Inventive man has...

Dorothy Thompson: Inventive man has...

Inventive man has invented nothing -- nothing from scratch. If he has produced a machine that in motion overcomes the...

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Germaine Greer: Our whole lives...

Germaine Greer: Our whole lives...

Our whole lives are lived in a tangle of telling, not telling, misleading, allowing to know, concealing, eavesdropping...

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Lucy Stone: Because I know...

Lucy Stone: Because I know...

Because I know that I shall suffer, shall I, for this, like Lot's wife, turn back? No, mother, if in this hour of the...

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Dora Russell: We do not...

Dora Russell: We do not...

We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed all our trust...

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Ellen Key: For success in...

Ellen Key: For success in...

For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed...

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Ellen Key: Corporal punishment is...

Ellen Key: Corporal punishment is...

Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides....

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Susan Faludi: The feminine woman...

Susan Faludi: The feminine woman...

The feminine woman is forever static and childlike. She is like the ballerina in an old-fashioned music box, her...

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Gail Sheehy: We hear the...

Gail Sheehy: We hear the...

We hear the haunting presentiment of a dutiful middle age in the current reluctance of young people to select any...

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Maya Angelou: Black women have...

Maya Angelou: Black women have...

Black women have not historically stood in the pulpit, but that doesn't undermine the fact that they built the...

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Ann Landers: Bragging is not...

Ann Landers: Bragging is not...

Bragging is not an attractive trait, but let's be honest. A man who catches a big fish doesn't go home through an...

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Marion Woodman: The body is...

Marion Woodman: The body is...

The body is like an elaborate metaphor. One may be able to taste and not swallow, like the anorexic, or to swallow...

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Anita Brookner: A man of...

Anita Brookner: A man of...

A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.

Source: Rachel, referring...

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Laura Ingalls Wilder: I am beginning...

Laura Ingalls Wilder: I am beginning...

I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after...

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Kate Chopin: The voice of...

Kate Chopin: The voice of...

The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close...

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Susan Sontag: The best emotions...

Susan Sontag: The best emotions...

The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. . . . The least energizing emotion to write out of is...

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Susan Sontag: The basic unit...

Susan Sontag: The basic unit...

The basic unit for contemporary art is not the idea, but the analysis of and extension of...

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Susan Sontag: AIDS obliges people...

Susan Sontag: AIDS obliges people...

AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or...

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Dorothy Canfield Fisher: Like other potentates...

Dorothy Canfield Fisher: Like other potentates...

Like other potentates with a long habit of arbitrary authority, she covered her perplexity with a smart show of...

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Judith Martin: Chaperons, even in...

Judith Martin: Chaperons, even in...

Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force...

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