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Victoria Claffin Woodhull: All that is...

Victoria Claffin Woodhull: All that is...

All that is good and commendable now existing would continue to exist if all marriage laws were repealed tomorrow . ....

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Harriet Martineau: Laws and customs...

Harriet Martineau: Laws and customs...

Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and...

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Helen Rowland: A widow is...

Helen Rowland: A widow is...

A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang...

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Grace Paley: You know the...

Grace Paley: You know the...

You know the mind is an astonishing, long-living, erotic thing.

Source: Enormous...

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Florence King: The more immoral...

Florence King: The more immoral...

The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways.

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Katharine Whitehorn: I yield to...

Katharine Whitehorn: I yield to...

I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work...

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Oriana Fallaci: Listening to someone...

Oriana Fallaci: Listening to someone...

Listening to someone talk isn't at all like listening to their words played over on a machine. What you hear when you...

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Lynn Caine: It's wrenching enough...

Lynn Caine: It's wrenching enough...

It's wrenching enough to lose the man who is your lover, your companion, your best friend, the father of your...

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Carol Gilligan: The blind willingness...

Carol Gilligan: The blind willingness...

The blind willingness to sacrifice people to truth, however, has always been the danger of an ethics abstracted from...

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Agnes Repplier: People who cannot...

Agnes Repplier: People who cannot...

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

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Judith Crist: Amid all the...

Judith Crist: Amid all the...

Amid all the easily loved darlings of Charlie Brown's circle, obstreperous Lucy holds a special place in my heart. She...

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Jane Bryant Quinn: The shortest recorded...

Jane Bryant Quinn: The shortest recorded...

The shortest recorded period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the...

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Fran Lebowitz: Nothing succeeds like...

Fran Lebowitz: Nothing succeeds like...

Nothing succeeds like address.

Source: Metropolitan Life, The Nail Bank: Not Just...

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Shirley Conran: I make no...

Shirley Conran: I make no...

I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it. But you have to be efficient if...

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Anna Quindlen: It makes me...

Anna Quindlen: It makes me...

It makes me angry to think that . . . female sanitation workers will spend their days doing a job most of their...

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Renata Adler: The writer has...

Renata Adler: The writer has...

The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition,...

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Renata Adler: No one ever...

Renata Adler: No one ever...

No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a...

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Lady Marguerite Blessington: The vices of...

Lady Marguerite Blessington: The vices of...

The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for errors; and those of the poor and lowly, for...

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Lady Marguerite Blessington: Praise is the...

Lady Marguerite Blessington: Praise is the...

Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful.

Source: In And I...

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Isabel Burton: He who knows...

Isabel Burton: He who knows...

He who knows and knows not he knows:? he is asleep -- wake him.
He who knows and knows he knows:? he is wise --...

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