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We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

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Some of these stories, it is understood, are not to be passed on to my father, because they would upset him. It is well known that women can deal with...more

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To have them putting him on, trying him on, trying him out while he himself puts them on like a sock over a foot onto the stub of himself--his extra s...more

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He said, I won't have one of those things in the house. It gives a young girl a false notion of beauty, not to mention anatomy. If a real woman was bu...more

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What is believed in society is not always the equivalent of what is true; but as regards to a woman's reputation, it amounts to the same thing.

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Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women.

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I have periods now, like normal girls; I too am among the knowing, I too can sit out volleyball games and go to the nurse's for aspirin and waddle alo...more

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They are boiling with the pressured energy of explosive forces confined in a small space, and with the fervor of all religious movements in their earl...more

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Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet.

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It isn't chic for women to be drunk. Men drunks are more excusable, more easily absolved, but why? It must be thought they have better reasons.

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This is what I miss, Cordelia: not something that’s gone, but something that will never happen. Two old women giggling over their tea.

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This murdered girl troubles me. After the first shock, nobody at school says much about her. Even Cordelia does not want to talk about her. It’s as if...more

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Gender roles suck," says Swift Fox.Then you should stop playing them, thinks Toby.

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According to Tobias, women hang around longer because they’re less capable of indignation and better at being humiliated, for what is old age but one ...more

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From her handbag she takes a round gilt compact with violets on the cover. She opens it, unclosing her other self, and runs her fingertip around the c...more