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“We, who are so schooled in the art of listening to the voices of others, can often hear our own voice only when we are alone. . . For many women, the first choice, then, is to give ourselves the ne...”
“Nobody knows much about women, not even Freud, not even women themselves. But it's like electricity: you don't need to know how it works to get a shock on the fingers.”
“The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor. ”
“That is the injustice of a woman's lot. A woman has to bring up her children; and that means to restrain them, to deny them things they want, to set them tasks, to punish them when they do wrong, t...”
“Backlock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sanderson, who was also blind, gave excellent lectures on color, and taught others the theory of ideas ...”
“There was a strange but universal understanding among women. On some level all women knew, they all understood, the fear of being outnumbered, of being helpless. It throbbed in their chests when th...”
“To face a man in combat is challenge enough. To find the goddess in a woman is the life work of a man. Hard though the first may be, the second is the harder longer road. But every man seeks the wo...”
“She rides as a man, goes unveiled as a man, fights as a man. Let her prove herself worthy as a man, worthy of her weapons and of our friendship.”
“To me, there's nothing on earth other than women. It's why I get out of bed every morning.”
“That's what's wrong with women. They want you to wait for them until they get ready and then they don't even tell you how they feel. ”
“Men do not know what they do not know, and women should not tell them.”
“Women, oh, women! They'll find the baddest meanin' in your words an' hold it up, sayin', Look what you attacked me with!”
“Any woman can weep without tears," she answered over her shoulder, "and most can heal with their hands. It depends on the wound. She is a woman, Your Highness, and that's riddle enough”
“A woman's eyes cut deeper than a knife.”
“Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?”
“It was futile to attack with reason the stout wall of irrational feelings that, as is known, is the stuff of which the female mind is made.”
“my mothersensed awar in herwomb,and so sheraised meto fight.”
“JBs mother had taught him early on that appreciated women are happy women.”
“All women are not Helen, I know that, but have Helen in their hearts.”
“A goodlookin horse is like a goodlookin woman, he said. They're always more trouble than what they're worth. What a man needs is just one that will get the job done.”
