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Kathryn Hulme: The awesome antiphon...

Kathryn Hulme: The awesome antiphon...

The awesome antiphon swelled in the dark and expanded.

Source: On music at early...

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Helen Rowland: A fool and...

Helen Rowland: A fool and...

A fool and her money are soon courted.

Source: A Guide to Men, First Interlude ...

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Julie Burchill: A woman who...

Julie Burchill: A woman who...

A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be and the most...

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Grace Paley: The word career...

Grace Paley: The word career...

The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional...

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Florence King: He travels fastest...

Florence King: He travels fastest...

He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is...

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Belle Livingstone: Much has been...

Belle Livingstone: Much has been...

Much has been written about the beauty, the stillness, the terror of the desert but Iittle about its...

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Katharine Whitehorn: I blame Rousseau,...

Katharine Whitehorn: I blame Rousseau,...

I blame Rousseau, myself. Man is born free, indeed. Man is not born free, he is born attached to his mother by a cord...

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Gail Sheehy: With the only...

Gail Sheehy: With the only...

With the only certainty in our daily existence being change, and a rate of change growing always faster in a kind of...

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Gail Sheehy: Would that there...

Gail Sheehy: Would that there...

Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful...

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Carol Gilligan: My research suggests...

Carol Gilligan: My research suggests...

My research suggests that men and women may speak different languages that they assume are the same, using similar...

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Carol Gilligan: In the different...

Carol Gilligan: In the different...

In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility,...

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Elsa Maxwell: I make enemies...

Elsa Maxwell: I make enemies...

I make enemies deliberately. They are the sauce piquante to my dish of life.

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Anna Jameson: The true purpose...

Anna Jameson: The true purpose...

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us; to develop, to...

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Elizabeth Hardwick: The fifties --...

Elizabeth Hardwick: The fifties --...

The fifties -- they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief...

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Helen Gurley Brown: I care. I...

Helen Gurley Brown: I care. I...

I care. I care a lot. I think of Cosmopolitan, all day, and I run scared. So it's a combination of fright, caring and...

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Shirley Conran: I would rather...

Shirley Conran: I would rather...

I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it.

Source: Superwoman, 1975.
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Harriet Martineau: I am sure...

Harriet Martineau: I am sure...

I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are . ....

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Katharine Hepburn: Show me an...

Katharine Hepburn: Show me an...

Show me an actress who isn't a personality and I'll show you a woman who isn't a star.

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Raquel Welch: Change excites me....

Raquel Welch: Change excites me....

Change excites me. I am fifty years old. It's when the mind catches up with the body.

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Rosalind Russell: Taking joy in...

Rosalind Russell: Taking joy in...

Taking joy in life is a woman's best cosmetic.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations...

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