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Helen Rowland: After marriage, a...

Helen Rowland: After marriage, a...

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and...

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Helen Rowland: Before marriage, a...

Helen Rowland: Before marriage, a...

Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down...

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Helen Rowland: Marrying an old...

Helen Rowland: Marrying an old...

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

Source: Reflections...

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Florence King: We want a...

Florence King: We want a...

We want a president who is as much like an American tourist as possible. Someone with the same goofy grin, the same...

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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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Andrea Dworkin: The fact that...

Andrea Dworkin: The fact that...

The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to...

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Andrea Dworkin: Being a Jew,...

Andrea Dworkin: Being a Jew,...

Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human...

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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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Susan Sontag: The truth is...

Susan Sontag: The truth is...

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

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Susan Sontag: Volume depends precisely...

Susan Sontag: Volume depends precisely...

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year,...

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Nancy Friday: It was the...

Nancy Friday: It was the...

It was the promise of men, that around each corner there was yet another man, more wonderful than the last, that...

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Helen Keller: . . ....

Helen Keller: . . ....

. . . militarism . . . is one of the chief bulwarks of capitalism, and the day that militarism is undermined,...

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Helen Keller: Museums and art...

Helen Keller: Museums and art...

Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange to many that the...

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Helen Keller: Toleration is the...

Helen Keller: Toleration is the...

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself...

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Dorothy Parker: He has a...

Dorothy Parker: He has a...

He has a capacity for enjoyment so vast that he gives away great chunks to those about him, and never even misses...

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Helen Rowland: Love, like chicken...

Helen Rowland: Love, like chicken...

Love, like chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its...

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Helen Rowland: The feminine vanity...

Helen Rowland: The feminine vanity...

The feminine vanity case is the grave of masculine illusions.

Source: In Webster's...

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Helen Rowland: Variety is the...

Helen Rowland: Variety is the...

Variety is the spice of love.

Source: Reflections of a Bachelor Girl (1903; p....

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Helen Rowland: Wedding: the point...

Helen Rowland: Wedding: the point...

Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her.

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Helen Rowland: When a man...

Helen Rowland: When a man...

When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his...

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