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Andrea Dworkin: Monroe, the consummate...

Andrea Dworkin: Monroe, the consummate...

Monroe, the consummate sexual doll, is empowered to act but afraid to act, perhaps because no amount of acting,...

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Mary Austin: When a woman...

Mary Austin: When a woman...

When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of her...

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Christiane Collange: How many women...

Christiane Collange: How many women...

How many women are ready to admit that they are capable of changing the course of their existence by simply taking...

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Christiane Collange: We all have...

Christiane Collange: We all have...

We all have a tendency to obscure the forest of simple joys with the trees of problems.

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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.

Source:...

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Jane Howard: She was a...

Jane Howard: She was a...

She was a patron saint of the peripheral.

Source: On Margaret Mead, 1984.
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Molly Ivins: I believe in...

Molly Ivins: I believe in...

I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.

Source: In...

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Molly Ivins: Being slightly paranoid...

Molly Ivins: Being slightly paranoid...

Being slightly paranoid is like being slightly pregnant -- it tends to get worse.

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Hannah More: Going to the...

Hannah More: Going to the...

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

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Jane Smiley: Your sons weren't...

Jane Smiley: Your sons weren't...

Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for.

Source: In...

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Julie Burchill: A good part...

Julie Burchill: A good part...

A good part -- and definitely the most fun part -- of being a feminist is about frightening...

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Florence King: Time has lost...

Florence King: Time has lost...

Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American...

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Naomi Wolf: Western women have...

Naomi Wolf: Western women have...

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material...

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Bernice Johnson Reagon: Today whenever women...

Bernice Johnson Reagon: Today whenever women...

Today whenever women gather together it is not necessarily nurturing. It is coalition building. And if you feel the...

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Joan Didion: The fancy that...

Joan Didion: The fancy that...

The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children,...

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Emily Dickinson: Till the first...

Emily Dickinson: Till the first...

Till the first friend dies, we think our ecstasy impersonal, but then discover that he was the cup from which we drank...

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Francesca Annis: I don't really...

Francesca Annis: I don't really...

I don't really have an image of myself. Now, is that true? Well, maybe I do and it's different, which is why I get...

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Roseanne Barr: I figure if...

Roseanne Barr: I figure if...

I figure if my kids are alive at the end of the day, I've done my job.

Source: In...

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Mary McCarthy: If someone tells...

Mary McCarthy: If someone tells...

If someone tells you he is going to make a realistic decision, you immediately understand that he has resolved to do...

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Edna O'Brien: . . ....

Edna O'Brien: . . ....

. . . in dreams begins responsibility.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for...

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