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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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Lady Marguerite Blessington: Imagination, which is...

Lady Marguerite Blessington: Imagination, which is...

Imagination, which is the eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernicious gift to the...

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Helen Rowland: The hardest task...

Helen Rowland: The hardest task...

The hardest task of a girl's life, nowadays, is to prove to a man that his intentions are...

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Helen Rowland: When two people...

Helen Rowland: When two people...

When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they don't understand one another, but a sign that they...

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Simone de Beauvoir: The most mediocre...

Simone de Beauvoir: The most mediocre...

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

Source:...

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Liz Carpenter: Instead of looking...

Liz Carpenter: Instead of looking...

Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to...

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Rebecca Harding Davis: Nowhere in this...

Rebecca Harding Davis: Nowhere in this...

Nowhere in this country, from sea to sea, does nature comfort us with such assurance of plenty, such rich and tranquil...

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Helen Keller: How reconcile this...

Helen Keller: How reconcile this...

How reconcile this world of fact with the bright world of my imagining? My darkness has been filled with the light of...

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Dorothy Parker: I don't know...

Dorothy Parker: I don't know...

I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.

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Dorothy Parker: Gratitude -- the...

Dorothy Parker: Gratitude -- the...

Gratitude -- the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world.

Source: In...

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Dorothy Parker: She had spent...

Dorothy Parker: She had spent...

She had spent the golden time in grudging its going.

Source: The Lovely Leave, in...

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Margaret Anderson: Art to me...

Margaret Anderson: Art to me...

Art to me was a state: it didn't need to be an accomplishment.

Source: The Fiery...

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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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Jane Howard: Parents, however old...

Jane Howard: Parents, however old...

Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As...

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Robin Morgan: There's something contagious...

Robin Morgan: There's something contagious...

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

Source: Sisterhood Is...

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Helen Rowland: A man snatches...

Helen Rowland: A man snatches...

A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth -- and...

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: One can never...

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: One can never...

One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay in kind somewhere else in life . . .

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Simone de Beauvoir: Since it is...

Simone de Beauvoir: Since it is...

Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from...

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Simone de Beauvoir: Let women be...

Simone de Beauvoir: Let women be...

Let women be provided with living strength of their own. Let them have the means to attack the world and wrest from...

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Katharine Whitehorn: Have you ever...

Katharine Whitehorn: Have you ever...

Have you ever taken something out of the clothes hamper because it had become, relatively, the cleanest...

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