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Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clo...more

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

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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...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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I prefer, where truth is important, to write fiction.

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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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Why should a real chair be better than an imaginary elephant?

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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