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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: The most exhausting...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: The most exhausting...

The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.

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Alice Embree: America's technology has...

Alice Embree: America's technology has...

America's technology has turned inward upon itself; its corporate form makes a servant of profit, not the servant of...

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Suzanne LaFollette: Until economic freedom...

Suzanne LaFollette: Until economic freedom...

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for...

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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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Virgilia Peterson: I can understand...

Virgilia Peterson: I can understand...

I can understand that memory must be selective, else it would choke on the glut of experience. What I cannot...

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Virgilia Peterson: In Reno [Nevada],...

Virgilia Peterson: In Reno [Nevada],...

In Reno [Nevada], there is always a bull market, never a bear market for the stocks and bonds of...

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Elsa Maxwell: Giving parties is...

Elsa Maxwell: Giving parties is...

Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity.

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Andrea Dworkin: Sexism is the...

Andrea Dworkin: Sexism is the...

Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on...

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Alice James: You must remember...

Alice James: You must remember...

You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is...

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Helen Gurley Brown: Nearly every glamorous,...

Helen Gurley Brown: Nearly every glamorous,...

Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of...

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Helen Gurley Brown: You can have...

Helen Gurley Brown: You can have...

You can have your titular recognition. I'll take money and power.

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Adela Rogers St Johns: Happiness is a...

Adela Rogers St Johns: Happiness is a...

Happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky.

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Jamaica Kincaid: If I actually...

Jamaica Kincaid: If I actually...

If I actually ran the world, I'd do it from the kitchen. It's not anything deliberate or a statement or anything,...

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Fran Lebowitz: Remember that as...

Fran Lebowitz: Remember that as...

Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is...

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Shirley Conran: Life is too...

Shirley Conran: Life is too...

Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.

Source: Superwoman, Epigraph, 1975.
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Jill Johnston: Telling it like...

Jill Johnston: Telling it like...

Telling it like it is means telling it like it was and how it is now that it isn't what it was to the is now...

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Robin Morgan: Friendship is mutual...

Robin Morgan: Friendship is mutual...

Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.

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Fran Lebowitz: Very few people...

Fran Lebowitz: Very few people...

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the...

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Janet Flanner: Women have invented...

Janet Flanner: Women have invented...

Women have invented nothing in all that, except the men who were born as male babies and grew up to be men big enough...

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Erma Bombeck: Don't confuse fame...

Erma Bombeck: Don't confuse fame...

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

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