The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.
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It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
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For it is probable that when people talk aloud, the selves (of which there may be more than two thousand) are conscious of disserverment, and are tryi...
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Why should a real chair be better than an imaginary elephant?
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.
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Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?
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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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...to use the little kick of energy which opposition supplies to be more vigorously oneself.
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No doubt we should be, on the whole, much worse off than we are without our astonishing gift for illusion.
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By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
