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Helen Rowland: Every man wants...

Helen Rowland: Every man wants...

Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts and his higher nature --and another woman...

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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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June Jordan: In the name...

June Jordan: In the name...

In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and...

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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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Dorothy Uhnak: It's funny how...

Dorothy Uhnak: It's funny how...

It's funny how your initial approach to a person can determine your feelings toward them, no matter what facts develop...

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Lady Marguerite Blessington: . . ....

Lady Marguerite Blessington: . . ....

. . . if those only wrote, who were sure of being read, we should have fewer authors; and the shelves of libraries...

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Katherine F Gerould: Civilization is merely...

Katherine F Gerould: Civilization is merely...

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty...

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Susan Sontag: Ours is a...

Susan Sontag: Ours is a...

Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory...

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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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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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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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Dorothy Dix: It is only...

Dorothy Dix: It is only...

It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that makes them little...

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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps: It is not...

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps: It is not...

It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties,...

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Alexandra Ripley: I really don't...

Alexandra Ripley: I really don't...

I really don't know why Scarlett has such appeal. When I began writing the sequel, I had a lot of trouble because...

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Barbara Cartland: I'll keep going...

Barbara Cartland: I'll keep going...

I'll keep going till my face falls off.

Source: The Observer, 'Sayings of the...

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Emily Blackwell: Health has its...

Emily Blackwell: Health has its...

Health has its science as well as disease. . .

Source: Written with her sister...

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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross: We need to...

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross: We need to...

We need to teach the next generation of children from Day One that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's...

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Anais Nin: We do not...

Anais Nin: We do not...

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow...

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Toni Cade Bambara: When you dream,...

Toni Cade Bambara: When you dream,...

When you dream, you dialogue with aspects of yourself that normally are not with you in the daytime and you discover...

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Toni Cade Bambara: I tend to...

Toni Cade Bambara: I tend to...

I tend to agree that celibacy for a time is worth considering, for sex is dirty if all it means is winning a man,...

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