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“No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.”
“When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women”
“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
“Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.”
“There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.”
“As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.”
“And people tended not to bother a woman with a book.”
“Women only nag when they feel unappreciated.”
“there is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy”
“I am two women: one wants to have all the joy, passion and adventure that life can give me. The other wants to be a slave to routine, to family life, to the things that can be planned and achieved....”
“A living poem" had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others.”
“You see, women are like fires, like flames. Some women are like candles, bright and friendly. Some are like single sparks, or embers, like fireflies for chasing on summer nights. Some are like camp...”
“The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity. ”
“The Creator made women to please the eye, and to boggle the mind.”
“We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.”
“Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.”
“It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.”
“It's called civilization. Women invented it, and every time you men blow it all to bits, we just invent it again.”
“Women are the bloodthirsty sex," said Ric sadly. "We get the reputation, but it is only because the women stand behind us, and say, 'Kill it. Squish it.”
“As they passed the rows of houses they saw through the open doors that men were sweeping and dusting and washing dishes, while the women sat around in groups, gossiping and laughing.What has happen...”
