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Monica Baldwin: The refectory is...

Monica Baldwin: The refectory is...

The refectory is a cenacle in which the taking of food is transfigured almost into a...

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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: Failing to be...

Helen Rowland: Failing to be...

Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want...

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Helen Rowland: No girl who...

Helen Rowland: No girl who...

No girl who is going to marry need bother to win a college degree; she just naturally becomes a Master of Arts and a...

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Lynn Caine: Our society is...

Lynn Caine: Our society is...

Our society is set up so that most women lose their identities when their husbands die.

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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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Agnes Repplier: It is not...

Agnes Repplier: It is not...

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling...

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Fran Lebowitz: Do not allow...

Fran Lebowitz: Do not allow...

Do not allow children to mix drinks. It is unseemly and they use too much vermouth.

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Fran Lebowitz: Spilling your guts...

Fran Lebowitz: Spilling your guts...

Spilling your guts is just exactly as charming as it sounds.

Source: Social...

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Erma Bombeck: I take a...

Erma Bombeck: I take a...

I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: Checkout Time is 18...

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Helen Keller: I can see,...

Helen Keller: I can see,...

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made...

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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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Dorothy Parker: Men don't like...

Dorothy Parker: Men don't like...

Men don't like nobility in woman. Not any men. I suppose it is because the men like to have the copyrights on nobility...

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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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Maya Angelou: Self-pity in its...

Maya Angelou: Self-pity in its...

Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become...

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Susan Sontag: The past itself,...

Susan Sontag: The past itself,...

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects --making it...

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Susan Sontag: It's a pleasure...

Susan Sontag: It's a pleasure...

It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the...

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Susan Sontag: Lying is an...

Susan Sontag: Lying is an...

Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Susan Sontag: The problems of...

Susan Sontag: The problems of...

The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or...

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Helen Rowland: When you see...

Helen Rowland: When you see...

When you see a married couple coming down the street, the one who is two or three steps ahead is the one that's...

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