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However, the majority of women are neither harlots nor courtesans; nor do they sit clasping pug dogs to dusty velvet all through the summer afternoon....more

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Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.

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An offering for the sake of offering, perhaps. Anyhow, it was her gift. Nothing else had she of the slightest importance; could not think, write, even...more

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As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

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Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.

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A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means sig...more

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The questions that we have to ask and to answer about that procession during this moment of transition are so important that they may well change the ...more

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No guinea of earned money should go to rebuilding the college on the old plan just as certainly none could be spent upon building a college upon a new...more

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But when she looked at Prue tonight, she saw this was not now quite true of her. She was just beginning, just moving, just descending.

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There is a code of behavior, she knew, whose seventh article (it may be) says that on occasions of this sort it behooves the woman, whatever her own o...more

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Was it wisdom? Was it knowledge? Was it, once more, the deceptiveness of beauty, so that all one’s perceptions, half-way to truth, were tangled in a g...more

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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.

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As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.

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Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

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If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance very various heroic and mean ...more