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“A sense of responsibility— or was it guilt?— hung over me, that I was in some way at fault because of cowering to all these pompous men all these years, when I should have had the bravery to reclai...”
“And why must it always be presumed that a woman's views are based on personal considerations?”
“Women naturally prefer their ideas to their sensations.”
“A woman is an important somebody and sometimes you win the triple crown: good food, good sex, and good talk. Most men settle for any one, happy as a clam if they get two. But listen, let me tell yo...”
“Why, when men hate themselves, it’s women who take the beatings.”
“... a whole day’s tête-à-tête between two women can never end without a quarrel.”
“You sure you're all right? You aren't out here pondering dark female thoughts are you?”
“[of Nan Goldin] In an afterword to Ballad written in 2012, she declared: ‘I decided as a young girl I was going to leave a record of my life and experience that no one could rewrite or deny.”
“I think all women should be able to make it on their own,” Frankie said. “It’s not about needing a manor not — it just means she knows she can do whatever she sets out to do.”
“There are women who have forgotten that to be a woman doesn't simply mean humiliation, doesn't simply mean bitterness. I haven't forgotten it yet...I'm not going to forget it.”
“Whenever a young thing wants to be free minus serious thought, she gets pregnant and then gets married. Voilà!”
“A woman the more careful she is about her face is commonly the more careless about her house.”
“From birth to 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35 she needs good looks. From 35 to 55 good personality. From 55 on she needs good cash. I'm saving my money.”
“In the sex-war thoughtlessness is a weapon of the male vindictiveness of the female. Both are reciprocally generated but a woman's desire for revenge outlasts all other emotion. Yet when every unki...”
“No woman marries for money they are all clever enough before marrying a millionaire to fall in love with him first.”
“The great question which I have not been able to answer despite my 30 years of research into the feminine soul is "what does a woman want"?”
“There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.”
“We don't love a woman for what she says but we like what she says because we love her.”
“Where young boys plan for what they will achieve and attain young girls plan for whom they will achieve and attain.”
“Women can do everything men can do the rest.”
