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“We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.”
“No other woman had that air of spring in January, that ever-bubbling fount of love and hope.”
“Where do you get the right to decide our lives? I'll tell you where. From that little hog's gut that hangs between your legs. Well, let me tell you something... you will need more than that. I don'...”
“I'm afraid, Belle, that being a lady is more than proper clothes. It is an attitude. From your...experience, you may know more of business and politics than ladies are supposed to know. Gentlemen a...”
“I began to understand that there were certain talkers--certain girls--whom people liked to listen to, not because of what they, the girls, had to say, but because of the delight they took in saying...”
“Women are strange little beasts,' he said to Dr. Coutras. 'You can treat them like dogs, you can beat them till your arm aches, and still they love you.' He shrugged his shoulders. 'Of course, it i...”
“An uncomplicated woman gets complicated when she finally says what she means.”
“All beautiful women are murderers. You've probably heard it said before.”
“At heart, he could not abide sense in women: he liked to see them as silly, as light-headed, as vain, as open to ridicule as possible; because they were then in reality what he held them to be, and...”
“Women were like rivers, their banks were unreachable, the night often rang with the cries of the drowned.”
“A person didnt need to be beautiful, they just needed to be loved. But I couldnt help wanting it. If that was the way I could be loved, to be beautiful, Id take it”
“I was admonished to adopt feminine clothes; I refused, and still refuse. As for other avocations of women, there are plenty of other women to perform them.”
“Laundry, liturgy and women's work all serve to ground us in the world, and they need not grind us down. Our daily tasks, whether we perceive them as drudgery or essential, life-supporting work, do ...”
“The man raised his glass, 'To you!'Can't you think of a wittier t”
“A woman's sense of self and power should come not from the number of heads she can turn, but rather from the minds and hearts she can turn.”
“Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.”
“Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.”
“Ah women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.”
“Only a woman can make you feel wrong for doing something right.”
“She liked me because she said that we both hated everything and knew that friendship was an act of desperation. She said that for a man I was alright. She said that people were half-way and if it w...”
