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Marie Antoinette: I was a...

Marie Antoinette: I was a...

I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my...

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Mary Webb: It made me...

Mary Webb: It made me...

It made me gladsome to be getting some education, it being like a big window opening.

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Helen Lawrenson: Most of today's...

Helen Lawrenson: Most of today's...

Most of today's film actress are typical of a mass-production age: living dolls who look as if they came off an...

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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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Jessica Mitford: Things on the...

Jessica Mitford: Things on the...

Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for...

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Susan Sontag: The camera makes...

Susan Sontag: The camera makes...

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's...

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: The loneliness you...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: The loneliness you...

The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's...

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Grace Paley: . . ....

Grace Paley: . . ....

. . . people will sometimes say, Why don't you write more politics? And I have to explain to them that writing the...

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Florence King: People are so...

Florence King: People are so...

People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that...

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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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Letty Cottin Pogrebin: Lifestyles and sex...

Letty Cottin Pogrebin: Lifestyles and sex...

Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blue eyes or small...

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Cynthia Heimel: Men, being conditioned...

Cynthia Heimel: Men, being conditioned...

Men, being conditioned badly, are always feeling nooses closing around their necks, even dumpy boors no girl would...

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Oriana Fallaci: Glory is a...

Oriana Fallaci: Glory is a...

Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is...

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Barbara Grizzuti Harrison: Kindness and intelligence...

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison: Kindness and intelligence...

Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of...

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Andrea Dworkin: Childbearing is glorified...

Andrea Dworkin: Childbearing is glorified...

Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it.

Source: Pornography,...

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Midge Decter: The hatred of...

Midge Decter: The hatred of...

The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be...

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Shana Alexander: The sad truth...

Shana Alexander: The sad truth...

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Source: The Feminine Eye,...

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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 error; and those of the poor and lowly, for...

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Lady Marguerite Blessington: Borrowed thoughts, like...

Lady Marguerite Blessington: Borrowed thoughts, like...

Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.

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Minna Thomas Antrim: Three failures denote...

Minna Thomas Antrim: Three failures denote...

Three failures denote uncommon strength. A weakling has not enough grit to fail thrice.

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