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There was something factitious and brittle and thereby utterly feminine about her charm which made m...

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A taste for adventure is by no means a masculine monopoly.

I rather miss my wild girl; but if I get a strong, helpful, tender-hearted woman in her place, I sha...

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He said, I won't have one of those things in the house. It gives a young girl a false notion of beau...

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We are all born sexual creatures,thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this na...

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Because misogynists are the best of men.” All the poets reacted to these words with hooting. Boccacc...

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Milan KunderaThe Book of Laughter and Forgetting

In the past, only some of the males, but all of the females, were able to procreate. Equality is mor...

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Nassim Nicholas TalebThe Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

If a woman cannot make her mistakes charming, she is only a female.

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Oscar WildeLord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories

I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes.

One understands now the drama that rends the adolescent girl at puberty: she cannot become “a grown-...

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She is like a cat in the darkAnd then she is the darknessShe rules her life like a fine skylarkAnd w...

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Stevie NicksBest Of Fleetwood Mac (Easy Piano)

I have an extremely strong, masculine mind and a feminine sensibility level, which is kind of an unu...

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She had not wanted him to but had let him have his way because ever since she was a child she had ge...

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There is a resemblance between men and women, not a contrast. When a man begins to recognize his fee...

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Anaïs NinIn Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays

Our culture is now one of masculine triumphalism, in which transhistorically feminine expressions – ...

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It is only through my daughter that I have come to realise that a life without femininity – devoid o...

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Antonella Gambotto-BurkeMama: Dispatches from the Frontline of Love

The self-esteem of western women is founded on physical being (body mass index, youth, beauty). This...

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Antonella Gambotto-BurkeThe Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide

Whether they regard themselves as pro- or antifeminist, most women want men to do more of the emotio...

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First of all understand that I get it. That there are millions and millions of women who are steely ...

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First of all understand that I get it. That there are millions and millions of women who are steely ...

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The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not de...

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Feminism and femininity are not mutually exclusive. It is misogynistic to suggest that they are. Sad...

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Nay, he needs a woman, not a girl. And Laoghaire will be a girl when she’s fifty.

Thirty years on, femininity is still compulsory for women—and has become an option for men—while gen...

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