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Shana Alexander: I don't believe...

Shana Alexander: I don't believe...

I don't believe man is woman's natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is.

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Julie Burchill: Tears are sometimes...

Julie Burchill: Tears are sometimes...

Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely...

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Irene Peter: To make crime...

Irene Peter: To make crime...

To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.

Source: In Webster's...

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Naomi Wolf: The beauty myth...

Naomi Wolf: The beauty myth...

The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the...

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Naomi Wolf: To ask women...

Naomi Wolf: To ask women...

To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.

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Rebecca Harding Davis: Young people have...

Rebecca Harding Davis: Young people have...

Young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which . . . develops patriotism and courage....

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Dorothy Parker: I can't talk...

Dorothy Parker: I can't talk...

I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back on. I can't...

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Dorothy Parker: If all the...

Dorothy Parker: If all the...

If all the girls attending it were laid end to end - I wouldn't be at all surprised.

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Dorothy Parker: How could they...

Dorothy Parker: How could they...

How could they tell?

Source: On being told of the death of former President Calvin...

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Helen Gurley Brown: My success was...

Helen Gurley Brown: My success was...

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

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Helen Gurley Brown: No office anywhere...

Helen Gurley Brown: No office anywhere...

No office anywhere on earth is so puritanical, impeccable, elegant, sterile or incorruptible as not to contain the...

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Fran Lebowitz: Even when freshly...

Fran Lebowitz: Even when freshly...

Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be...

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Susan B Anthony: [Bicycling] has done...

Susan B Anthony: [Bicycling] has done...

[Bicycling] has done more to emancipate women than any one thing in the world. It gives her a feeling of self-reliance...

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Helen Rowland: Marriage is a...

Helen Rowland: Marriage is a...

Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst of the bargain.

Source: In...

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Barbara Grizzuti Harrison: Fantasies are more...

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison: Fantasies are more...

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed...

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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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George Eliot: The law and...

George Eliot: The law and...

The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes...

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George Eliot: Animals are such...

George Eliot: Animals are such...

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

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Shirley Jackson: It is only...

Shirley Jackson: It is only...

It is only with the eyes open that a corporeal form returns, and assembles itself firmly around the hard core of...

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Tama Janowitz: Crimes, sins, nightmares,...

Tama Janowitz: Crimes, sins, nightmares,...

Crimes, sins, nightmares, hunks of hair: it was surprising how many of them has something to dispose of. The more I...

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