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“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.”
“This thing that I created, this thing I made as a woman, for other women, is worth something. It's worth exactly the same as what a similar thing, built by a man, for men, is worth.”
“I'm afraid even ImpSec has no explanation for women's tastes in men.”
“In his humble opinion, she possessed the least appealing traits a woman can put on display: undiscriminating curiosity and nonsensical verbosity.”
“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, its women who take the beatings.”
“Grandmother trains me when to slip and slide and change, and when to remain inert. She tells me, "It is true, women are the keepers. We are keepers of silverware, the bites of savouries in our brot...”
“The psychology of adultery has been falsified by conventional morals, which assume, in monogamous countries, that attraction to one person cannot coexist with affection for another. Everybody knows...”
“... a whole days tte--tte 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?”
“The saddest thing a girl can do is dumb herself down for a guy.”
“As for women who were pretty, intelligent, strikingly sensual, the daughters of rich familiesthey would only have served to disrupt my carefully ordered existence”
“[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 live like a woman and I love like a man. If only,you can deal with it.”
“Amid this social intercourse, however, he avoided sedulously a meeting with Mrs. Annice; he had decided not to see her for a while. Indeed, it was not till an evening late in February, after dinner...”
“Leslie Marmon Silko whispers the story is long. No, longer. Longer than that even. Longer than anything. With Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath drink at the bar. Laugh the dark laughter in the dark ligh...”
“But more often there are regular people in the pool. Beautiful women seniors doing water aerobics - mothers and grandmothers and great grandmothers - their massive breasts and guts reminding you ho...”
“We can tell a lot about a woman from her books.”
“She had that kind of undeniable femininity that few women achieve, bogged down as we are by other things.”
