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Buy for me from the King's own kennels, the finest elk hounds of the Royal strain, male and female. Bring them back without delay. For," he murmured, ...more

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As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

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A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means sig...more

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What I value is the naked contact of a mind.

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Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the...more

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The lake of my mind, unbroken by oars, heaves placidly and soon sinks into an oily somnolence.’ That will be useful.

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There is a code of behavior, she knew, whose seventh article (it may be) says that on occasions of this sort it behooves the woman, whatever her own o...more

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

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There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across count...more

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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 giganti...more

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... All who have brought about a state of sex-consciousness are to blame, and it is they who drive me, when I want to stretch my faculties on a book, ...more

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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural...more

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The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

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Possibly when the professor insisted a little too emphatically upon the inferiority of women, he was concerned not with their inferiority, but with hi...more