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Andrea Dworkin: Erotica is simply...

Andrea Dworkin: Erotica is simply...

Erotica is simply high-class pornography; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged,...

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Rebecca West: God forbid that...

Rebecca West: God forbid that...

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

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Helen Rowland: A man loses...

Helen Rowland: A man loses...

A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last.

Source: In...

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Helen Rowland: A man's heart...

Helen Rowland: A man's heart...

A man's heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are...

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Helen Rowland: Don't waste time...

Helen Rowland: Don't waste time...

Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new...

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Grace Paley: You know the...

Grace Paley: You know the...

You know the mind is an astonishing, long-living, erotic thing.

Source: Enormous...

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Katharine Whitehorn: I blame Rousseau,...

Katharine Whitehorn: I blame Rousseau,...

I blame Rousseau, myself. Man is born free, indeed. Man is not born free, he is born attached to his mother by a cord...

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Cynthia Heimel: Men, being conditioned...

Cynthia Heimel: Men, being conditioned...

Men, being conditioned badly, are always feeling nooses closing around their necks, even dumpy boors no girl would...

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Margaret Anderson: I have always...

Margaret Anderson: I have always...

I have always fought for ideas -- until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which...

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Agnes Repplier: People who cannot...

Agnes Repplier: People who cannot...

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

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Judith Crist: In this lovely...

Judith Crist: In this lovely...

In this lovely land of corrugated cartons and plastic bags, we want our entertainment packaged neatly . . . an...

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Rona Barrett: Pick your enemies...

Rona Barrett: Pick your enemies...

Pick your enemies carefully or you'll never make it in Los Angeles.

Source: In An...

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Fran Lebowitz: I must take...

Fran Lebowitz: I must take...

I must take issue with the term a mere child, for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere...

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Erma Bombeck: Never go to...

Erma Bombeck: Never go to...

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

Source: In 1,911 Best Things...

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Mary Ashton Livermore: Above the titles...

Mary Ashton Livermore: Above the titles...

Above the titles of wife and mother, which, although dear, are transitory and accidental, there is the title human...

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Mary Ashton Livermore: The age looks...

Mary Ashton Livermore: The age looks...

The age looks steadily to the redressing of wrong, to the righting of every form of error and injustice; and a...

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George Eliot: There is a...

George Eliot: There is a...

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy,...

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Rose Tremain: The Imagination conjures...

Rose Tremain: The Imagination conjures...

The Imagination conjures gifts; what the ungrateful, unsentimental part of the mind has to do is to unwrap them, find...

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Nadine Gordimer: Censorship is never...

Nadine Gordimer: Censorship is never...

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the...

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Anna Sewell: I am never...

Anna Sewell: I am never...

I am never afraid of what I know.

Source: Black Beauty, 1877.
-- Anna Sewell,...

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