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Yet who reads to bring about an end, however desirable? Are there not some pursuits that we practise because they are good in themselves, and some ple...more

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Even the names of the books gave me food for thought.

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

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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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This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in...more

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The first duty of a lecturer- to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on ...more

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When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere b...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