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If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions...more

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I don't smile. Why tempt her to friendship?

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Our big mistake was teaching them to read. We won't do that again.

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Lilies used to be a movie theatre, before. Students went there a lot; every spring they had a Humphrey Bogart festival, with Lauren Bacall or Katherin...more

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We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces on the edges of print.

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My self is a thing that I must now compose...as one composes a speech. What I must present is a 'made' thing. Not something born.

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I am tempted to think that to be despised by her sex is a very great compliment to a woman.

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Condoms seemed to her inherently wicked. But they were also inherently funny. They were like rubber gloves with only one finger, and every time she sa...more

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We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

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Some of these stories, it is understood, are not to be passed on to my father, because they would upset him. It is well known that women can deal with...more

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To have them putting him on, trying him on, trying him out while he himself puts them on like a sock over a foot onto the stub of himself--his extra s...more

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He said, I won't have one of those things in the house. It gives a young girl a false notion of beauty, not to mention anatomy. If a real woman was bu...more

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What is believed in society is not always the equivalent of what is true; but as regards to a woman's reputation, it amounts to the same thing.

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Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women.

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I have periods now, like normal girls; I too am among the knowing, I too can sit out volleyball games and go to the nurse's for aspirin and waddle alo...more