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That is why Napoleon and Mussolini both insist so emphatically upon the inferiority of women, for if they were not inferior, they would cease to enlar...more

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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.

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By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world...more

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As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.

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Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

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If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance very various heroic and mean ...more

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Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware t...more

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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

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For we think back through our mothers if we are women.

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Life for both sexes - and I looked at them, shouldering their way along the pavement - is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. It calls for gigan...more

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Does it explain my astonishment the other day when Z, most humane, most modest of men, taking up some book by Rebecca West and reading a passage in it...more

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Possible then the professor inited a little too emphatically upon the inferiority of omen, he was concerned not with their inferiority, but with his s...more

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Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

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And since a novel has this correspondence to real life, its values are to some extent those of real life. But it is obvious that the values of women d...more