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“perhaps the greatest challenge to thinking women is the challenge to move from the desire for safety and approval to the most "unfeminine" quality of all -- that of intllectual arrogance, the supre...”
“I've got no mother, no wife, no kids. I had, but my mother's dead, and I lost my wife and my kids when I had my trouble. Women are bitches. It's hard for a chap to live without any affection in his...”
“Discontented women are like pressure cookers. The steam rises and one day they just reach boiling point.”
“There is pain in being a woman, yes, but there is pride in it, too.”
“Pity, if one can generalize, is at the bottom of woman. When men like us, it is for our better qualities, and however tender their liking, we dare not be unworthy of it, or they will quietly let us...”
“Troubles always seemed more severe after the sun went down. Even irrational worries and fears could seem perfectly logical at midnight.”
“Women do amazing, creative, wonderful things.”
“We decided to become a society of women, a club to make sure women were protected. The club was something important back then. Not like it is today.”
“A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.”
“The idea that women's strong attachments to each other are what make them so vulnerable is horrifying. I count my close friendships with a few girls that I know as one of the best things I have goi...”
“But even now, especially now, it seems to me that women have a strength about them that men never had. And I wonder how did men always get portrayed in the movies and such as the strong ones? How d...”
“I looked silently at her lips. All women are lips, all lips. Some are pink and firmly round: a ring, a tender guardrail from the whole world. And then there are these ones: a second ago they werent...”
“In Shinear, a woman [is] safe anywhere, any time-except from Trollocs and Myrddraal, of course-and any man [will] die to see it so.”
“A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person”
“All women are many women! I'm afraid you've never known very much about women.”
“women were beyond me.they saw somethingdepraved.there was one waitressa little older thanI, she rather smiled,lingered when shebrought mycoffee.that was plenty for me, that wasenough.- Young in New...”
“Chirren is the most dangerous creatures on the earth, with the exception of young girls between the ages of fifteen and forty-two.”
“Never would I have a man saying what or who were best for me, and that were all there were to it.”
“Well you know boys, a nuclear reactor is a lot like women. You just have to read the manual and press the right button.”
“Oleanders have attractive flowers, they decorate nature beautifully, but they are poisonous; and a woman is an oleander; its all right to watch her once in a while, but then you must walk away with...”
